The Smugboad has long stated its view that the "Art" community housed some of the "finest conmen & women in the world" add to this the "Vandals" hiding behind the title of "street art" so you can imagine or delight when we see them and their spokes people stuttering and fumbling for a beliveable response when they realise they themselves have been "Done Over"!
Steve Wright, author of 'Banksy's Bristol', told Sky News Online the transition of art from the streets to the auction houses misses the point.
He said: "It's public art and expression.
"It's the most democratic art form there is and I don't think any of the artists would want to make it exclusive and costly."
It is likely Banksy would agree.
As he writes on his website: "I don't agree with auction houses selling street art - it's undemocratic, it glorifies greed and I never see any of the money."
Others take a more "Keep it real people" approach.
In the Stokes Croft area of the city, street art continues to flourish and it is not about making money.
Chris Chalkey, chairman of the People's Republic of Stokes Croft, (What a pretentious CUNT) wants to make the whole area an outdoor gallery. "It might be illegal, but it is expression and this is an amazing cultural centre for everyone," This bloke is also highly undemocratic, not everyone likes looking at the work of Vandals!
The Money Shot
Bonhams' urban art specialist Gareth Williams claims auctioning the art is a logical progression."It's accessible and iconic," he says. "People have seen it on the streets and responded to it."It's the market that disagrees with it staying on the streets. The art buying public want to own it."So there you have it the Urban Art Vandals are being stitched up nicely and it does my old heart a power of good thinking about just how pissed Banks'y must be to see his vandalism lining the pockets of the really smart operators!
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