blog assignment 10

 

‘Nighthawks’ is a very famous painting painted by Edward hopper in 1942. It depicts a scene where people are sitting in a downtown diner late at night. It is his most famous painting as well as one of the most recognised in American art history. Banksy’s painting ‘are you using that chair’ is what some would consider a rip-off of Hoppers painting but others would call this a remix. 

Banksy’s version shows the people in the diner looking at a football hooligan, who is dressed in only a pair of union flag underpants, who has just thrown a chair at the diner window. ‘Are you using that chair’ is a classic example of Banksy’s style and use of cleaver wit. Even though a lot of aficionados still don’t acknowledge Banksy’s work as art his work has been growing in popularity and recognition much like Andy Warhol’s did in the 50s. Thus nurturing the interest if art in the youth that without him may not of happened.

[Edward hopper, Nighthawks, 1942. Banksy, are you using that chair, 2003] http://www.lovethecool.net/2009/05/14/banksys-nighthawkes/