banksy vs king robbo
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BANKSY VS KING ROBBOCreative Rivalry in Street Art
Many people think the feud between Robbo
and Banksy started in 2009 when Banksy
painted over Robbo’s long standing work
under a British canal in Camden, London. It
actually started in the 1990’s at a place
called the Dragon Bar. Banksy claimed to not
know who Robbo was and Robbo slapped him
saying, “You’ll never forget me.”
Up until Robbo’s work was painted over he
was retired from tagging. After Banksy’s
paint over, Robbo was compelled to come out
of retirement to strike back after the
disrespectful act.
Robbo fixed Banksy defacing by retagging his name.
Banksy retaliated by adding FUC in front of it.
Robbo subtlety fixed the retribution.
From there it was painted black and Robbo attacked Banksy’s career
But even with this, the feud kept going.
Banksy painted over it and decorated an interesting living room piece involving fish.
Each artist didn’t wanted to be bested by the other,
the rivalry drove them to continually keep producing
more art to answer for what the other had done.
The fact that the two artists had conflicting styles
furthered the rivalry and art.
They did however have similar backgrounds, They
are both pseudonymous graffiti artists that's did
much of their work underground. Both have very
private lives, keeping birth location and birthdate
unknown.
Robbo was a graffiti artist and did all of his
work freehand, while Bansky was a street
artists and utilized stencils to complete his
pieces. Robbo saw Bansky’s use of stencils
as a lack of skill and his covering of Robbo’s
pieces as a lack of artistic integrity.
The rivalry grew to include many other
people, Team Robbo and fans of Banksy.
Those in support of Robbo defaced works of
Banksy. The rivalry definitely drove each
artist and their followers to produce more art
and it fueled creativity.
The collaboration of their work, even through it is insulting to one another,
brings a new look to their art. With stencil, being more realistic and
freehand giving an old graffiti style with blurred lines and bright colors,
the mashup pieces are appealing to all street art lovers.
The feud gave Robbo a chance to try different forms of tagging, mainly
street art and stencil. He even planned to host an art gallery.
If we take the time to stop looking at the insults, we can see the true
creativity both Robbo and Banksy had when working with each other and
how Robbo grew as an artist, not just a tagger.
In April 2011 Robbo went into a coma
after suffering a head injury. Banksy
created a Robbo tribute in the place of
the original landmark that started the
feud.
Robbo died July 31 2014. King Robbo
kept his name unknown until after
death he was pronounced to be John
Robertson.
He will be remembered through out
the graffiti world for his style and
fatherhood of graffiti in London.