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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by visualverite on Mar 1, 2021 20:33:08 GMT 1, But Robert del Naja doesn’t have dreads, does he?
This the guy?
But Robert del Naja doesn’t have dreads, does he? This the guy? |
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by Fake on Mar 1, 2021 20:41:59 GMT 1, This is def Banksy.. but I don't get the meaning behind this piece..
This is def Banksy.. but I don't get the meaning behind this piece..
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by beau on Mar 1, 2021 21:00:00 GMT 1, Here you go ^^^
Since I had no idea what this was all about I did some searching : The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3] Wilde wrote the poem in mid-1897 while staying with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole.[4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".[5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine, "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for once I will be read by my peers – a new experience for me".[6]
Here you go ^^^ Since I had no idea what this was all about I did some searching : The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol (/rɛ.dɪŋ.dʒeɪl/) on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison. During his imprisonment, on Tuesday, 7 July 1896, a hanging took place. Charles Thomas Wooldridge had been a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards. He was convicted of cutting the throat of his wife, Laura Ellen,[1] earlier that year at Clewer, near Windsor. He was aged 30 when executed.[2][3] Wilde wrote the poem in mid-1897 while staying with Robert Ross in Berneval-le-Grand. The poem narrates the execution of Wooldridge; it moves from an objective story-telling to symbolic identification with the prisoners as a whole.[4] No attempt is made to assess the justice of the laws which convicted them, but rather the poem highlights the brutalisation of the punishment that all convicts share. Wilde juxtaposes the executed man and himself with the line "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".[5] Wilde too was separated from his wife and sons. He adopted the proletarian ballad form, and suggested it be published in Reynold's Magazine, "because it circulates widely among the criminal classes – to which I now belong – for once I will be read by my peers – a new experience for me".[6] |
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by artcave on Mar 1, 2021 21:26:41 GMT 1, 
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by Lroy on Mar 1, 2021 21:30:15 GMT 1, To be fair he might live in the area... If we go with the cooperative theory of artists that makes Banksy, one of the members that painted it lives in Whitley wood
good point !
To be fair he might live in the area... If we go with the cooperative theory of artists that makes Banksy, one of the members that painted it lives in Whitley wood good point ! |
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by eibbor on Mar 1, 2021 21:30:41 GMT 1, ibb.co/wdfm59D
Outed 🤷🏿♂️
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by Lroy on Mar 1, 2021 21:31:48 GMT 1,
Nice photo !
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by irl1 on Mar 1, 2021 21:50:25 GMT 1, Banksy dropping off gods ultimate noise to do his porridge 
Banksy dropping off gods ultimate noise to do his porridge |
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by mrizzle on Mar 1, 2021 21:54:43 GMT 1, This is def Banksy.. but I don't get the meaning behind this piece..
This article is quite good and helps potentially unpick the message:
www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-56231364
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by stillborncrisps on Mar 1, 2021 21:59:49 GMT 1,
Thought it was bedsheets with a typewriter tied to the end from the other pics (which didn't make much sense), but can see now in this close up he's using his own typed words to escape. V nice.
Thought it was bedsheets with a typewriter tied to the end from the other pics (which didn't make much sense), but can see now in this close up he's using his own typed words to escape. V nice. |
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by Rubberneck on Mar 1, 2021 22:09:55 GMT 1, Thought this write up on where the wall Facebook page is the best I’ve read so far
Location is on the former Reading Gaol prison in the UK, featuring a prisoner escaping on a knotted illustrative pun showing the strength of literature & reference to the type writer, related to the fact the Irish poet & playwright Oscar Wilde, who was imprisioned here between 1895-97. While here he wrote the poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde was part of the Aesthetic movement which held that art should stand for beauty alone. Currently the local art community want to turn the site into a community arts hub but developers want to redevelop the site for housing.
Thought this write up on where the wall Facebook page is the best I’ve read so far
Location is on the former Reading Gaol prison in the UK, featuring a prisoner escaping on a knotted illustrative pun showing the strength of literature & reference to the type writer, related to the fact the Irish poet & playwright Oscar Wilde, who was imprisioned here between 1895-97. While here he wrote the poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde was part of the Aesthetic movement which held that art should stand for beauty alone. Currently the local art community want to turn the site into a community arts hub but developers want to redevelop the site for housing.
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by niceguyg on Mar 1, 2021 22:14:39 GMT 1, Thought this write up on where the wall Facebook page is the best I’ve read so far Location is on the former Reading Gaol prison in the UK, featuring a prisoner escaping on a knotted illustrative pun showing the strength of literature & reference to the type writer, related to the fact the Irish poet & playwright Oscar Wilde, who was imprisioned here between 1895-97. While here he wrote the poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde was part of the Aesthetic movement which held that art should stand for beauty alone. Currently the local art community want to turn the site into a community arts hub but developers want to redevelop the site for housing.
Thank you for the context. Brilliant
Thought this write up on where the wall Facebook page is the best I’ve read so far Location is on the former Reading Gaol prison in the UK, featuring a prisoner escaping on a knotted illustrative pun showing the strength of literature & reference to the type writer, related to the fact the Irish poet & playwright Oscar Wilde, who was imprisioned here between 1895-97. While here he wrote the poem, Ballad of Reading Gaol. Wilde was part of the Aesthetic movement which held that art should stand for beauty alone. Currently the local art community want to turn the site into a community arts hub but developers want to redevelop the site for housing. Thank you for the context. Brilliant |
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by thisisalow on Mar 1, 2021 22:17:41 GMT 1, The exact location of the piece on the wall is very nice - from a distance those darker bricks bottom right work as shadows for the end of the rope and the typewriter...
(not been there - just going from the photos)
The exact location of the piece on the wall is very nice - from a distance those darker bricks bottom right work as shadows for the end of the rope and the typewriter...
(not been there - just going from the photos)
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by Daniel Silk on Mar 2, 2021 7:46:51 GMT 1,
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by eibbor on Mar 3, 2021 13:16:41 GMT 1, ![]()
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New Banksy? Reading Prison , by Onket on Mar 3, 2021 14:52:34 GMT 1, Good to see H&S regs being followed.
Can't have graffiti artists just doing what they want and throwing caution to the wind, can we.
Good to see H&S regs being followed. Can't have graffiti artists just doing what they want and throwing caution to the wind, can we. |
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