Graffiti Drawings By Banksy

In April 2007, Transport for London painted over Banksy's iconic image a scene from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead guns. Although the image was very popular, Transport for London claimed that the "graffiti" created "a general atmosphere neglect and social decay which in turn encourages crime" and their staff are "pressional cleaners not pressional art critics". Banksy tagged the same site again (pictured at right). This time the actors were portrayed as holding real guns instead bananas, but they were adorned with banana costumes. Banksy made a tribute art piece over this second Pulp Fiction piece. The tribute was for 19-year-old British graffiti artist Ozone who, along with fellow artist Wants, was hit by an underground train in Barking, East London on 12 January 2007. The piece was an angel wearing a bullet-pro vest holding a skull. He also wrote a note on his website saying:
The last time I hit this spot I painted a crap picture two men in banana costumes waving hand guns. A few weeks later a writer called Ozone completely dogged it and then wrote 'If it's better next time I'll leave it' in the bottom corner. When we lost Ozone we lost a fearless graffiti writer and as it turns out a pretty perceptive art critic. Ozone – rest in peace.
On 27 April 2007 a new record high for the sale Banksy's work was set with the auction the work Space Girl & Bird fetching £288,000 (US$576,000) around 20 times the estimate at Bonhams London. On 21 May 2007 Banksy gained the award for Art's Greatest living Briton. Banksy, as expected, did not turn up to collect his award and continued with his notoriously anonymous status. On 4 June 2007, it was reported that Banksy's The Drinker had been stolen. In October 2007, most his works fered for sale at Bonhams auction house in London sold for more than twice their reserve price.
Banksy has published a "manifesto" on his website. The text the manifesto is credited as the diary entry one Lieutenant Colonel Mervin Willett Gonin, DSO, which is exhibited in the Imperial War Museum. It describes how a shipment lipstick to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp immediately after its liberation at the end World War II helped the internees regain their humanity. However, as 18 January 2008, Banksy's Manifesto has been substituted with Graffiti Heroes #03 that describes Peter Chappell's graffiti quest the 1970s that worked to free George Davis his imprisonment. By 12 August 2009 he was relying on Emo Phillips' "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised God doesn’t work that way, so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness." A small number Banksy's works can be seen in the movie Children Men, including a stenciled image two policemen kissing and another stencil a child looking down a shop.