Mr. Brainwash is a self proclaimed film-maker and street artist from Paris. He started what he is doing by simply filming people like his cousin, Invader as they made street art. His real name is Thierry Guetta, and he decides to make a mash up of all these artists. As he gets more into it, he wants to meet the famous Banksy. Once he does, Banksy pushes him to be an artist. After Mr. Brainwash gets really into basically hiring a bunch of graphic artists to do his work. Banksy quotes, "I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art, I don't do that so much anymore". Banksy really kind of makes fun of Thierry for what he does. He essentially takes famous works of art and mashes them up and doesn't make them himself. Then he sells them and people go crazy for them. A piece of art such as a spray can go for 1000 dollars. And some of his other works are in the hundred thousands.
Thierry quotes that his technique is why his name is Mr. Brainwash. "Thats why I call myself Mr. Brainwash. Its because that everything that I do....somewhere it brainwash your face". It is known to the public that he merely tells other artists what to make, rather then himself. I don't necessarily enjoy that. I think that he is somewhat crazy and is a genius. He's a genius because of what he did, just decided one day that he was going to become a artist real fast. But for that same exact reason I'm disturbed. He took a lot of Banksy and Andy Warhols type work and created into his. For some reason it just seems really wrong. Here are some of "his" works.
LA mural 2011
Spray Cans, 2010
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