BANKSY "Keep it reak" offset lithography, sheet size 50 x 70 cm, signed in print bottom right, numbered bottom right with pencil 64/150, cotton paper.
One of Banksy's most iconic and immediately recognizable images, Keep it Real encapsulates the artist's biting sense of humor and cutting social satire. Rendered in Banksy's signature graphic monochromatic visual language, the figure of the monkey appears apathetic, his lumbering shoulders slouched, his arms slack by his side and his heavy brow furrowed. Adorned with a sandwich board bearing the command 'Keep it Real', this enigmatic chimpanzee appears simultaneously as a figure of subservience and of domination; the perfect visual vehicle for Banksy's cutting analyzes of contemporary mass culture.
BANKSY "Keep it reak" offset lithography, sheet size 50 x 70 cm, signed in print bottom right, numbered bottom right with pencil 64/150, cotton paper.
One of Banksy's most iconic and immediately recognizable images, Keep it Real encapsulates the artist's biting sense of humor and cutting social satire. Rendered in Banksy's signature graphic monochromatic visual language, the figure of the monkey appears apathetic, his lumbering shoulders slouched, his arms slack by his side and his heavy brow furrowed. Adorned with a sandwich board bearing the command 'Keep it Real', this enigmatic chimpanzee appears simultaneously as a figure of subservience and of domination; the perfect visual vehicle for Banksy's cutting analyzes of contemporary mass culture.
