Focus on Kissing Coppers and analyze the Materials.
Kissing Coppers is an example of stencil graffiti, which is a quick method for erecting images onto large surfaces, which for Banksy is necessary to keep his anonymity. Due to the speed and ease of stencil graffiti, it is typically the message rather than the critical artistic design components that are most significant to the work. Artists who practice stencil graffiti typically utilize easily recognizable figures placed in deliberate locations in a ploy to orient public attention and conversation to their intended political or social message. In this way, Guido Indij has remarked that stencil graffiti is not an art form in and of itself, but rather a political technique.In Kissing Coppers, as well as many other Banksy pieces, iconic figures and images are not simply displayed, but rather deconstructed and juxtaposed into an atypical context oftentimes delivering a critique of an aspect of our society. In this way, graffiti has evolved tremendously from its origins of profane messages and slurs scribbled on buildings. Concerning the evolution and variation in street art, Banksy himself has remarked “Some of it will be pretty elaborate and some will just be a scrawl on a toilet wall.”
Banksy stencil graffiti