New Banksy artwork appears in English hospital's emergency department:
A new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.
The largely monochrome painting, which is one square metre, was hung in collaboration with the hospital's managers in a foyer near the emergency department.
It shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt.
He has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero - an NHS nurse.
The nurse's arm is outstretched and pointing forward in the fashion of Superman on a mission.
She is wearing a facemask, a nurse's cape, and an apron with the Red Cross emblem (the only element of colour in the picture).
The artist left a note for hospital workers, which read: "Thanks for all you're doing. I hope this brightens the place up a bit, even if its only black and white."
The painting will remain at Southampton General Hospital until the autumn when it will be auctioned to raise money for the NHS.
(Score: 1, Troll) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday May 08 2020, @01:33PM (6 children)
You lot know I appreciate some quality wiseassery as much as anyone around but calling someone a great artist because they're a wiseass is just dumb. It's not remotely an uncommon trait in humanity.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday May 08 2020, @02:36PM (3 children)
You sound more unhinged as the time passes. Self-isolating too much or what?
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2, Interesting) by aristarchus on Saturday May 09 2020, @12:23AM
Seems we need a -1 Philistine mod.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Saturday May 09 2020, @11:48AM (1 child)
Not particularly appreciating the works of a wiseass who's a mediocre artist is unhinged now? Interesting.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday May 09 2020, @12:42PM
Not appreciating is something, calling anyone's appreciation (the contrary of your opinion) "dumb" is something else.
And the frequency of you launching on the derogatory path seems to increase as the time passes; like everything in your life is turning to shit and you feel the compulsion to fling it around.
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 5, Touché) by bart9h on Friday May 08 2020, @03:40PM
"A poet is someone who says something that anybody could have said, but didn't."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @03:50PM
Well, it's very nice that Banksy is known for being an artist on higher grounds than his wiseassery. Art doesn't have to be great to be worthy, either. And that what constitutes "art" is broad enough to transcend any one person's opinion. Personally I think the piece in question makes a lovely point. YMMV and that's the beauty of it.
(Score: 0, Troll) by VLM on Friday May 08 2020, @02:06PM (3 children)
So the "banksy thing" is urban globalist hipsters getting themselves all wet over megacorporations culturally appropriating graffiti. How incredibly lame.
Oh good I was worried ultra rich capitalism would be left out, but I see its just fine.
banksy sux
(Score: 5, Touché) by c0lo on Friday May 08 2020, @02:44PM
You envious?
https://www.youtube.com/@ProfSteveKeen https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @05:57PM
The NHS is state owned, not a private corp.
But yeah, Banksy is just an upper-middle class poser. All his art work is trite.
(Score: 3, Funny) by krishnoid on Friday May 08 2020, @09:52PM
Are you *trying* to get SJWs wet with that sentence?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @02:19PM (11 children)
I look at that picture and I see a giant kid (imagine him with orange hair if it helps) using the workers as his play-things, putting them in a dangerous situation. The discarded workers lie broken in the trash can. It's not just the corona thing - this is the world. Giant idiots with the silver spoon still hanging out of their mouth get given outlandish power over the rest of us. You don't have to look far - Jared, Trump, Bush obvious examples not to mention numerous Royal families and billionaires. Generations of inherited-wealth idiots "play" with "NHS nurses" the world over.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday May 08 2020, @03:24PM (5 children)
I interpret the wholesome realism of the kid as being inspired by Normal Rockwell and the Betty-Boop like appearance of the nurse doll as complimenting the uniquely American wartime spirit which conquered fear and enemies alike.
The superheroes in the trash represent the newfound and wholesale American rejection of Jewish Hollywood bullshit in favor of the real everyday heroes who make America safer every day while protecting its way of life.
Of course, there will never be a modern-era painting more glorious than Rockwell's "The Kansas City Spirit." [preview.redd.it] I can hardly wait until the ADL and SPLC find out about it and demonize it for being "too White" before demanding it be scrubbed from the net and replaced with a "We Wuz Kangs" version with a faux-pharoah or a filthy illegal Mexican.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @06:50PM
When every one of your posts has a racial element, perhaps it's time to quit ethanol.
Americans are just Americans...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @07:42PM
God, you are so stupid. Please do your part to elevate humanity and kill yourself. Thanks in advance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @09:31PM (1 child)
> ... Normal Rockwell and the Betty-Boop like appearance of the nurse doll as complimenting the uniquely American wartime spirit which conquered fear and enemies alike.
Spotted -- someone that didn't read the first line of tfs:
"A new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital."
It's in England, idiot!
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday May 08 2020, @09:36PM
In America, EF is staring up the nurses dress to see if she's anatomically correct.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. I have always been here. ---Gaaark 2.0 --
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday May 11 2020, @02:11PM
That Kansas City Spirit looks a lot like Soviet-era artwork in the interests of the industrial motherland.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @05:45PM (2 children)
I interpret it:
As soon as the pandemic is over the nurse is going in the trash too.
Pandemic Lessons on what is really important not learned but a good preview for global warming.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @06:28PM
While the spotlight falls on the nurse she is momentarily hoisted aloft, putting her in great danger, while the Big Idiot imagines himself doing the real work.
Next up: The Glorious Soldier - although he's getting kind of boring. Maybe the Space Force will make him fun again.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Saturday May 09 2020, @11:06PM
"I guess he threw you away too now that the pandemic is over, huh."
"Yeah, I ... uh ... um, you guys are really cute. And I hear one of you is rich."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 08 2020, @07:12PM
From a certain perspective - a very literal one - it's a critique of overreach by Big Government. Guys? Back me up here - khallow? Runaway? Libertarian guy? Drunk shithead?
(Score: 2) by driverless on Monday May 11 2020, @05:36AM
Nonononono, you've got it all wrong. It's a metaphor, see? The nurse is representative of the orange giraffe that we all carry inside ourselves and the trash can is a metaphor for a bathtub full of brightly-coloured machine tools. Do I really need to explain art to you?
(Score: 2) by looorg on Friday May 08 2020, @03:49PM
A new Banksy, which will attract all the arts folks there there and thus breaking "social distancing" just so see the new/latest masterpiece. Unintended side-effect or something such?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by corey on Friday May 08 2020, @11:19PM
Banksy is a rock star.
The impact of this painting on the front line clinical workers in that hospital and others is immeasurable, and couldn't be achieved any other way. It's international news, was headline here in Australia the other day. This dude is a champ. The doctors and nurses dealing with the sick and dying need this desperately, I don't think any of us can understand what they're going through.
The painting is awesome too, I mean the imagery of it, the kid holding up a nurse angel with the typical superheroes being left side, so cool.