The weave today and yesterday
Banksy, Show Me the Monet, Oil on canvas, 4,3m, 2005
Oscar-Claude Monet, Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge, 89,7cmx90,5cm, 1897-1899.
The modern work "Show Me the Monet" is a parody of Claude Monet's Water Lilies and Japanese Bridge of 1899. Monet's work depicts a Japanese bridge rising over a pond filled with water lilies. Around it the greenery overflows, giving a heavenly sense of peace. In the modern reproduction of Monet's work, Banksy added a traffic cone and some abandoned supermarket carts, wanting, among other things, to comment on over-consumption and the impact of the modern human way of life on the environment. In a similar way, the students criticized man's aggressive behavior towards Nature by choosing to add rubbish to Hokusai's painting, "The Great Wave."
Tsunami by hokusai 19th century
Student's paintings
