Street art for the voiceless/the invisible

samedi 5 septembre 2020
par MmesS

Banksy
groupe 1 (8h)	gr2 (12h)
The document is a photograph of street art, on a wall in London. There’s a homeless man sitting and holding a sign, asking for change (not coins). It’s a play on words : he wants real change in society, and not coins after a purchase/buying something. The man is represented in black white to make the world understand the sadness of his life.	The document is a photograph of street art on a red wall, painted by Banksy. On this street art piece, we can see a homeless man holding a sign. The man is sitting on the sidewalk. He is wearing warm clothes and a beanie, so probably it’s in winter. He also has a cup, which supposedly serves to receive the coins people give him. The sign he is holding reads “keep your coins, I want change”. This play on words is meant to denounce the homeless’ conditions of living, and the artist asks for actual (=real) change in society : he wishes humanity was more important than money.
Nme
groupe 1 (8h)	gr2 (12h)
This photograph shows a street art work by Nme. In the middle, we can see a boy who is holding a sign with a message, like in a demonstration. He looks sand and the neutral colors underline/reinforce that impression. The message is « we can’t feed the poor, but we can fund a war », meaning that the American government provides/gives money for wars but they don’t find any money for the poor to eat or have a shelter. This street art work makes people think on the conditions of life of the homeless.	This document is a photograph of a street art piece/work surrounded by tags (entouré de), and in the middle, there’s a drawing of a poor man carrying a sign. On the sign, the artist Nme wrote “we can’t feed the poor, but we can fund a war”. This photograph aims at making people aware of the government’s economic priorities : they prefer funding wars instead of solving poverty problems. Our opinion is that it’s a good idea to make a preventive message.
Banksy
groupe 1 (8h)	gr2 (12h)
This document is a photograph of a street art piece by Banksy, on a wall and the sidewalk. We can see a child who is using a sewing machine to hold Union Jacks with strings. The work of art is in black & white except for the flags which are in colors. The artist wants to denounce society which uses child labour from poor countries to make even other countries’ flags. We can think the boy is focused because he can’t make mistakes, for fear of being hit.	This photograph shows a street art piece that was painted both on a wall and sidewalk representing a little boy in black and white dressed poorly who is sewing a string of Union Jacks, which is in colour. It’s surprising that a child is represented working, so we can deduce the artist denounces child labour, which uses poor children in Third World countries to produce stuff for European countries at a cheaper price. The Union Jacks are colourful to attract our attention and show/highlight that these children are invisible to our society. In China for example, they are forced to work from an early age and this street art piece denounces the silence of governments and their failure to assist someone in danger.
author unknown
groupe 1 (8h)	gr2 (12h)
This street art piece was made on a wall in a street of London by iCON. There is one boy who is watching a cardboard TV because he is homeless. The colors of the boy are dull because he represents poverty whereas the cardboard screen is in bright colors to represent richness. The artists wants to make people think, and realise poor children must have imagination to be entertained/for fun.	This picture is a street art painting made by iCON which represents a little black boy watching Mickey Mouse whose head is going through the screen/coming out of the screen, but we can see that the TV is in fact made from cardboard, so we can suppose the boy is imagining Mickey talking to him. What is also surprising is that the boy is in black and white only, whereas the cardboard boxes are in colour : we may suppose the child’s imagination makes everything look brighter and more beautiful than in reality. So his life must be dull and colourless. In our opinion, the artist’s message is that whatever the circumstances, children’s imagination has no limit/boundaries, but most importantly, his goal is to make people think about homeless persons, especially children. We may also deduce that for a poor little black boy, life is even harder than for a white one because of racism.