While in Miami, I kept passing a building surrounded by life size cutouts of the Storm Trooper characters from “Star Wars”, I had to see what it was all about. Inside was an array of pop culture and graffiti style art, along with a few animals made from tires – a kangaroo, elephants (featured above) and even Mickey Mouse! It was the a visual manifestation of Mr.Brainwash, at the time an unknown entity to me. A few weeks later I stumbled upon a movie, “Exit through the Gift Shop”, it featured well known street artists Banksy and Shepard Fairy. Surprisingly, the movie was actually all about this Mr.Brainwash fellow! I recommend you check him out at this interactive site.
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Mr.brainwash is a fraud who duped the art world into believing he has talent. if you watched the film you would realize that he is a fake artist making money off of stupid people. I mean, anybody can copy banksy and fairey. and honestly mr brainwash or whatever, is prolly not even real, and something that banksy created.
While many might agree with the fact that Mr.Brainwash is a “fraud”, I posted this photo because out of the 9 galleries I visited at Art Basel Miami Beach 2010 – the Mr.Brainwash’s “Under Construction” show was the most FUN! He uses recognizable figures from pop culture as his subject, throws a little bit of paint splatter on it and calls it a day. I am not saying this is “right” or “wrong” but it is recognized as ART. You must admit the movie “Exit through the Gift Shop” did paint Mr.Brainwash in a negative view. And I agree that the film left me with mixed feelings about him as a “graffiti artist”, however I do feel like he could be considered a pop artist because of his subject matter. Look at other pop artists, like Andy Warhol for example. He made money and became famous for screen printing a Campbell’s Soup can label, among other commodities and celebrities, is his art really so different from that of Mr.Brainwash?