Moustache - STALIN HAD ONE BUT THEN SO DID GANDHI.

 

While visiting our friends, Denis and Martine in Switzerland, we went to a Banksy exhibition in Lausanne. 

We had seen one before, in Berlin, but this was bigger and much more comprehensive. 

It took two hours and that was a bit rushed.

This ‘Anonymous’ street artist is certainly a clever guy. Not just in his brilliant art but also in his poignant writing. 

One example that really stood out was a line, “I get locked down but I’ll get up again.” This was painted on a London Underground train, during the COVID19 pandemic. 

The line was a clever adaptation of one used in the song ’Tubthumping’ by Chumbawumba.

Sometimes the brilliance isn’t in creating an original headline but adapting an existing one to give it new meaning. 

This simple phrase from Banksy summed up the frustration I had with all the anti lockdown sceptics during the pandemic. 

Banksy should have been in advertising.

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