Beejoir 🇬🇧 LV Child • Imodium • Colour of Money

[jam]

First one on fleabay

cgi.ebay.co.uk/Beejoir-LV-Child-SOLD-OUT-Banksy-pic-dolk-faile_W0QQitemZ110144619907QQihZ001QQcategoryZ360QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I know it was bound to happen, but at the same time it makes me sick to see after the hell SOS has gone through with paypal and going ahead to send the print out to 400 people without being paid. On top of that, its a charity print! Grrr... no good karma will go that sellers way.

[Existencil]

Hey,

I'm thinking about heading down to the Leonard Street Gallery to try & get one of the new prints. I only have enough money for one of them, but I can't decide whether to go for the Beejoir edition of 125 or the Mantis edition of 40.

What do you guys think?

Stuey*Esquire

[Harveyn]

Hi Stuey

Buy both (if you are lucky enough) and take them home and decide in comfort. I will then buy the one from you that you do not want for cost +20% ;D ;D ;D ;D

[scavos]

stuey1980 said:

Hey,

I'm thinking about heading down to the Leonard Street Gallery to try & get one of the new prints. I only have enough money for one of them, but I can't decide whether to go for the Beejoir edition of 125 or the Mantis edition of 40.

What do you guys think?

Stuey*Esquire

Hi Stuey. Welcome to the forum. With respect, you've asked a few questions like this. It all depends on your motivation for buying. I would advise you to consider which one you like the best and which you will put up in a frame on your wall at home. They are both very different and very thought provoking prints.

[Deleted]

for me beejoir by a mile.
i don't really get the mantis print. is there anything i am missing about it? is the last man holding a paint brush?

[slowmo]

I think the point is that the second to last is the man is stabbing the man in front. I think its a well duff image myself

[Coach]

Hi Stuey, i prefer the Beejoir, but surely it's a matter of personal taste, so it doesnt really matter what we all think. As always scavos is right.. ;D

[pezlow]

For me the Beejoir print is a great political piece. Not really sure what the Mantis print is trying to say. Is modern man being stabbed in the back by his ancestors? Why?

[babyford]

Beejoir for me. The Mantis print release date is still to be advised.

[insite]

pezlow said:

For me the Beejoir print is a great political piece. Not really sure what the Mantis print is trying to say. Is modern man being stabbed in the back by his ancestors? Why?

Maybe we're not learning from the mistakes they made, history repeating itself and all that, don't know don't really get it either.

[njr911]

It's about us killing the future. Climate change and all that.

I think it's a great image !

[organics1]

Hey Harveyn, I'm heading down there tomorrow fo the Beejoir so I will try and get you a Mantis as it's not really my cup of tea. You can have it for cost + whatever it costs me to post it to you, shouldn't have thought more that £7-8. Let me know if you're interested.

[catfelix69]

If anyone wants to get me a mantis would love one - can't make the show as I am stuck in a small village in Sussex (walking backwards)

[Montubu7]

If anyone wants to get me a Beejoir i will make it worth your while ( maybe Really worth your while...)

[katokato]

I really dont understand the interest in both artists. They seem to take a comman or well known image and desperatly try to attach some socio-political reference in the vain attempt at making a 'point'. I can just imagine the two artists with their previous prints surfing the web for the perfect picture of an ethiopian. Ethiopian + symbol of excess = "really great political piece". Could it be any more cliched, oh yes it could add some drips!! Do any of you actually like these prints, I think its obvoius Stuey*Esquire doesnt or he wouldnt be asking peoples opinions. If you liked the piece youd buy it.

[foreman]

catfelix69 said:

If anyone wants to get me a mantis would love one - can't make the show as I am stuck in a small village in Sussex (walking backwards)

same here, im stuck in us... id love a mantis to go with my all fall down! Im second on the LIST! :-)

[Existencil]

Maybe the above is cynical because he is a failed artist who envies Beejoir & Mantis success!

Stuey*Esquire

[Harveyn]

Thanks Organic 1.

Its a deal on the Mantis. Although I fear at an issue of 40 you will struggle (release date still tba as well).

Obviously make sure you get your SBFO 1st. Good luck with that (there is a rumor going round that it might not be available for release Thursday).

[misteraitch]

stuey1980 said:

I only have enough money for one of them, but I can't decide whether to go for the Beejoir edition of 125 or the Mantis edition of 40.

What do you guys think?

No question really - I'd suggest you buy the one you like the most - it works for me ;D

[pezlow]

katokato said:

I really dont understand the interest in both artists. They seem to take a comman or well known image and desperatly try to attach some socio-political reference in the vain attempt at making a 'point'. I can just imagine the two artists with their previous prints surfing the web for the perfect picture of an ethiopian. Ethiopian + symbol of excess = "really great political piece". Could it be any more cliched, oh yes it could add some drips!! Do any of you actually like these prints, I think its obvoius Stuey*Esquire doesnt or he wouldnt be asking peoples opinions. If you liked the piece youd buy it.

Perhaps but the main thing you have failed to appreciate is that these images by both Beejoir and Mantis were street pieces first and foremost. The prints came later, effectively as an afterthought. As street pieces both of these images are incredibly striking.

[sand]

For me - Beejoir's SBFO

Whilst I appreciate the message the Mantis piece is trying to give out..it looks ugly to me.

I buy art that I can appreciate on my wall everyday, the Mantis is something I would enjoy at the Found exhibition, but not in my home.

[katokato]

it's all a matter of personal taste, I don't like the prints and I'm guessing you don't have much opinion of them either but you're just desperately seeking the next banksy. This isn't for the love of art but simply an investment oppurtunity

[Existencil]

Hey,

I agree with Peslow.

The fact that these prints are provoking discussion is reason enough to be interested.

Stuey*Esquire

[katokato]

Hey,

I'm thinking about heading down to the Leonard Street Gallery to try & get one of the new prints. I only have enough money for one of them, but I can't decide whether to go for the Beejoir edition of 125 or the Mantis edition of 40.

They're both obviously rubbish but which one do you think will be worth more in a year?

Stuey*Esquire

[arcam]

stuey1980 said:

Hey,

I'm thinking about heading down to the Leonard Street Gallery to try & get one of the new prints. I only have enough money for one of them, but I can't decide whether to go for the Beejoir edition of 125 or the Mantis edition of 40.

What do you guys think?

Stuey*Esquire

Will the Mantis be on sale? It's release date is still TBA.

www.campbarbara.co.uk/mantis5.html

[jonpud]

stuey1980 said:

Hey,

I'm thinking about heading down to the Leonard Street Gallery to try & get one of the new prints. I only have enough money for one of them, but I can't decide whether to go for the Beejoir edition of 125 or the Mantis edition of 40.

What do you guys think?

Stuey*Esquire

Correct me if I'm wrong but sounds to me like you are asking which one will be worth the most in the future? If thats not the case then I apologise, no-one can choose for you, 2 different Artists and 2 different prints, buy the one you like best!"

[paolos]

Personally, I agree with Katokato. I despise all this Pseudo-intellectualism. The political statements in Banksy's most recent work were starting to grate a little and to now see everyone else trying the same thing makes me a bit sick. In studios all around the world we hear the collective scraping of a barrel that Banksy emptied a long time ago. That aside I still wouldn't buy any of these prints, they're just not nice. Why not save up and get a nice Adam Neate print?

[carlito]

pseudo-intellectualism eh - surely the point of art is to make you think? if only sometimes just 'i like this' .... for me its not about wow 'deeep man' now birds are going to think I'm intelligent, its more the impact of the image on myself and how much i enjoy it...

[jonpud]

paolos said:

Personally, I agree with Katokato. I despise all this Pseudo-intellectualism. The political statements in Banksy's most recent work were starting to grate a little and to now see everyone else trying the same thing makes me a bit sick. In studios all around the world we hear the collective scraping of a barrel that Banksy emptied a long time ago. That aside I still wouldn't buy any of these prints, they're just not nice. Why not save up and get a nice Adam Neate print?

Agree and disagree but don't know why!!
I think we all WANT to love these prints and we can't admit to ourselves that actually we don't like them! Personally I don't like them and wouldn't hang them on my wall, LVC on the other hand is different and same with All Fall Down, love the images regardless of the political protest they are trying to make!

[failedartist]

I say well done to the artists, they're making money off fools.

It reminds me of the banksy print

www.flickr.com/photos/icopythat/246185647/