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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 01:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Kohlstedt</dc:creator>
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<div id="urb-ads-toc-box" class="post-ads-toc-box urb-ads-toc" style="display:none;"></div><p>When the games are in town, street art abounds, with locals and visitors alike responding to the huge city-shifting influx of infrastructure and viewers.</p>
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<p>For his part, UK-native (but international man of mystery) <a href="https://weburbanist.com/2008/09/07/banksy-art-and-graffiti-the-ultimate-guide/">Banksy</a> mixed in his traditional themes of war and oppression, or remixed them, as it were, in a fresh(ly painted) take on this global spectacle. Still, this work goes a bit beyond your typical Banksy pieces, incorporating actual objects in the mix.</p>
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<p>Typical bunting, for instance, breaks down and becomes part of a commentary on child labor, also mixing mediums to incorporate real three-dimensional flags overlaid on a two-dimensional stencil. A pole vaulter appears to be jumping a barbed-wire metal fence, intent on landing on an old discarded mattress.</p>
<p><a href="#" data-featherlight="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/banksy-falling-rat-race.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-41487" title="banksy falling rat race" alt="" src="https://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/banksy-falling-rat-race.jpg" width="468" height="800"></a></p>
<p>One has to wonder if there are more works on the way, or extant but simply yet to be featured on his website &ndash; the consumerism around the Olympic Games seems like a hard mark to pass up for someone intent on related commentary.</p>
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