Banksy's Graffiti Being Vandalism

Conservative people would call Banksy’s graffiti as being vandalism instead of recognizing the fact he brings social issues to the eyes of the people through artwork. “Son of a Syrian Migrant Worker” and “Migrant Birds” both display how ridiculous we, humans, truly appear when trying to argue over immigration worldwide. Graffiti benefits urban societies of the 2010 era because, the art form is not only used to express ones’ emotions but, express their political objectification, in this case, Banksy addressed the issue of immigration. Banksy’s graffiti functions as a social critique because he uses humor to explain the societal issue of immigration; “Migrant Birds” is more persuasive than “Son of Syrians Migrant worker” because Banksy shows

The fact that Banksy decided to show humans as birds causes people to ask why are bird arguing over immigration causes the image to have dark humor underline the concept of the piece. The social critique of this image is that there is enough space on this earth for humans to choose to reside wherever they please, this is represented by the large gap between the birds. This can play a massive role in 2016’s society because immigration is one of the biggest political issues the world faces a whole. More humor that is placed into this picture is the fact that birds are genuinely upset at the fact another bird is on their wire and decided to bunch together to show that they are ostracizing the different bird. By having the placement of the pigeons on a crack to represent the wire that most birds reside on shows the territory of the pigeons being invaded by an exotic bird and automatically became defensive and wanted the foreign bird to leave their home. As in the real world, when angered by something, the pigeons have posters with social critiques are put upon posters exploiting their views whether what they are saying makes others

“We 're often led to believe migration is a drain on the country 's resources, but Steve Jobs was the son of a Syrian migrant. Apple is the world 's most profitable company, it pays over $7bn a year in taxes – and it only exists because they allowed in a young man from Homs." This rare statement by Banksy shows his actual social critique on this image. He wanted to show that as negative people try to make migrants seem, one of the most successful men was, in fact, a son of a migrant worker. America is not the only country that struggles with immigration issues, “Son of a Syrian Migrant Worker” is placed in a refugee campsite in France. The placement of the image could have been placed there as a beacon of hope for the refugees to know that there is success that comes from real world