Apresentação Inglês

Show Me The Monet, 2005

Oil on canvas in artist’s frame
143.1×143.4cm (56 3/8 x 56 1/2 inches)
Unique, Signed
Sotheby’s London: 21 October 2020 GBP 7,551,600 / USD 9,968,112
● Artwork I chose was the Banksy painting Show Me The Monet
● I chose this work of art because firstly it caught my attention because it
is a reuse of a work by Monet but what led me to choose this painting is
because it talks about the environment and the capitalist landscape.
● Show Me the Monet is a 2005 oil on canvas painting by graffiti artist
Banksy. The work is an appropriation of Claude Monet’s.
● Banksy repurposes an iconic image in the western canon: Claude
Monet’s career-defining view of the Japanese footbridge in his water
garden at Giverny. With its tongue-in-cheek pun of a title, Banksy’s
painstakingly observed re-painting delivers a complex dialogue that
tackles prescient issues of our time, such as the environment and the
capitalist landscape of our contemporary moment, not to mention the art
establishment and its current identity crisis. With a sumptuously
rendered orange traffic cone and a thickly textured shopping trolley
disrupting the romance of Monet’s iconic Impressionist masterpiece,
Banksy’s version is more twenty-first century fly-tipping spot than
timeless idyll. Delivered with the ironic dead-pan immediacy of a
punchline, the underlying conceptual complexity at stake here belies its
humor.
● This work of art is important for changing the world to a better place,
because Banksy reusing a work by Monet manages to show how
landscapes are changing, many of them are no longer beautiful
landscapes like Monet paints in his works, they are becoming capitalist
landscapes.
● In conclusion, art provides people with the possibility of developing
intercultural skills at all ages, combating the “preconceptions” that exist
in society. Furthermore, it changes the way people interact with the
world, solve their dilemmas and see other cultures.