Essays on Exit Through The Gift Shop

Introduction

Abstraction entails the use of visual language of form to create compositions that exist with some extent of independence from their worldly visual references. This is a trend that has permeated in art since the renaissance era. While most abstraction was seen in paintings and sculptures, modernist artists are incorporating this technique in films. This has been very apparent through many films that we have watched throughout the course. Abstraction imageries have tempered the plots to good effect. The imagination is that these were deliberates attempts to communicate certain perspectives. This paper explores this possibility citing two films that we ...

Exit through the Gift Shop is a 2010 about contemporary art, where the Frenchman Thierry Guetta is seen documenting the history of the street art movement with his camera; nevertheless, he turns this around and starts proposing himself as an artist instead. The film displays many different artists and the variations between them: technique, conception of art, ways to relate to each other, etc. One of the most interesting aspects of the movie lies in the anonymity of the artist Banksy, and Guetta’s relation to him, as it allows him to believe that he, without fame or recognition, could ...

Hard Work vs. Quick Money

Contemporary art is a very complex profession. As in all movements, success is hard to come across, and entails a great amount of luck; thus, artists’ experiences vary. The 2010 film Exit through the Gift Shop is an interesting showcase for these differences, as it portrays many artists and their development in this field. The present essay will study the similarities and differences between the two main characters’ experience in the art world in terms of their introduction to it, popular success and other artists’ esteem. Specifically, while Banksy started out as an unknown doing street art, is world-renowned and has ...

Film Review

I used to tell everyone I met to be an artist I don't do that any more (Banksy) The film “Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film” narrates about a start-up of street art, and about how art can turn into a business, thanks to people like Thierry Guetta. Guetta, who from an ordinary bystander and narrator of street art has turned into an ambitious businessman "Mr. Brainwash". At the start, in the very focus there is an off-stage life of street artists, captured by Thierry Guetta, who attained commitment of Banksy – a well-known figure in the ...