🎭In the footsteps of Banksy, the shadow artist of Bristol, street art.

🏙️ 1.History of Bristol

Bristol is a southwestern English city with a history of more than 1,000 years.

The original name in old English was called "Brycgstow," meaning "bridge shelter."

🗺️. Historical significance:

• Middle Ages: It was the main British port, played a role in the Transatlantic slave trade during the 17th-18th centuries.

• There was a major harbour (Bristol Harbour), which became today's hip Harbourside.

• City of Industry + Innovation: Bristol has a history of aviation and engineering, such as Concorde Aircraft also designed and assembled here.

• Famous universities: University of Bristol and UWE Bristol

🎨 Culture:

• It is a city of art, music and "independent thinking."

• Massive Attack, Portishead was born here.

• Street Art Grows Up With Banksy - The Enigmatic Artist Who Made People Around The World Know This City

🎭 2. Banksy History (Banksy)

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." - Banksy

Banksy is a mysterious street art artist believed to have been born and raised in Bristol.

No one really knows 100% of his identity, even to this day.

🖌️ Banksy's highlights:

• Use stencil (shapes) to spray paint as a political-social satire.

• Works often talk about freedom, violence, consumerism, poverty, war.

• Famous works such as

• Girl with a Balloon

• Flower Thrower

• Kissing Coppers

• Devolved Parliament (Monkey in Parliament photo)

🔍 His route:

• Let's start by spraying walls in Bristol in the late 1990s.

• 2006-2010 He was famous around the world for his exhibitions and puzzle works in many countries.

• In 2018, he made the self-destructive image of Girl with Balloon immediately after being auctioned at Sotheby's - a worldwide news story.

• 2020-2021 between COVID, he sprayed pictures of the NHS and children in Bristol and London.

🎨 Banksy with Bristol:

• This city is his hometown, and there are many images on the real walls to this day.

• There is a dedicated street art tour called Banksy Walking Tour (Stokes Croft, Nelson Street, Harbourside, etc.)

• There's a street art festival called Upfest inspired by him.

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The wall painting we saw along the walls of Bristol is called street art.

Or, if a little specific, it's called murals (wall paintings).

Some are graffiti if they are alphabets, lines or underground lines.

But when talking about Bristol, they use the word

✅ Bristol street art or

✅ Bristol murals.

🔹 The city is the birthplace of the world-famous graffiti artist "Banksy."

• Banksy was born and raised in Bristol at all.

• He made graffiti that had previously been considered "destructive" into "valuable works of art."

• As Banksy's reputation grew, the city began to embrace and push this art.

🔹 has a strong history of resistance and subculture.

• From the 80s-90s, the city had music, trip ‐ hop (like Massive Attack) and underground art movements.

• The younger generation uses walls as a medium for telling stories, reflecting politics and society.

🔹 Upfest Festival (Europe's largest street art & graffiti festival)

• Every year, artists from around the world come to draw new murals in Bristol.

• The city officially supports, not chasing artists as before.

• So there are more and more new images.

🔹 The local community values art on public spaces.

• Some districts like Stokes Croft, Bedminster, Nelson Street Locals see these colors and images as making the neighborhood look vibrant.

• Some building owners have reached the stage of hiring artists to draw beautiful mural to pull people around.

Bristol is a city that openly accepts street art, has old underground cultural roots, has famous artists like Banksy, and has an upfest festival that pushes

👉 What's it called in England?

✅ Street Art (Wide)

✅ Murals (wall image)

✅ Graffiti (if alphabetical lines, lines)

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