Place of Banksy’s Performence in Sotheby’s Gallery As a Case in Art H？story Process

Bansky is a protesting artist whose works’ themes are usually about the results of political and social incidents in the world and his way of expressing them in his works is through a critical evaluation of these incidents’ results. In the beginning, he was not considered as a remarkable artist, however, for a large part of the society, he was perceived as ‘Robin Hood’ and he earned public affinity. He was the center of attraction with his performance and his work named ‘Girl with baloon’ in an auction and with the debates about it, he was heard widely by arts society. “The Girl with baloon” expresses an innocent girl with her lovely looking eyes, her hope spreading by the wind, and her dreams despite of citizens’ lost innocence, peoples’ lone identity and their distant relations in lost, air polluted and skyscraper invaded cities in a simple way. This expressions’ highlighted emotions are not things a citizen can ignore. The work touched any citizens’ emotions even just for a second. Bansky’s this performance- although not everything happened as planned- created a ground of thought which includes the audience, the media, the critics and the artist himself due to changes of the new era art understanding, fragility, variability and continuity. This article is about Bansky’s emergence of performance over a known paint, developments, reactions and finally an institutional evaluation of this new situation. Bansky’s first graffiti work ‘Girl with baloon’ was painted by getting help from a stencil on a bridge pier wall. It turned out to be a paint first, then a popular subject of the auction and later on, it became the center of discussions in conceptual art societies. Thus, these phases led one to analyse his performance’s place in art process and its importance. By this evaluation, it may be seen that Bansky’s performance is within the framework of specific measurements of describing the previous art eras. The process that Bansky’s performance created, is because of the aim to express a new idea through a new perspective. However, the developments occurred different than the artist expected caused a new situation beyond the artist’s aim. Therefore, this is the proof that artists cannot be independent from society, art’s measure of worthiness can only be conducted by the society, and artists created identities will always be ahead of their names. Bansky is an artist who increases his influence in change, transformation and development occur in society. This is because Bansky is a good observer and he performs social emotions in a simple, unconcerned and