Banksy Fast Food Neanderthal Man Mounted & Framed Print ..Measures 10 x 8 Inches

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He began his career spray-painting buildings in Bristol, England, and has become one of the world's best-known artists. Banksy has been recycling the motif of a Girl with Balloon regularly since the early 2000s. The composition is dead simple—a young child gesturing toward a heart-shaped balloon floating away from her. It’s not clear whether the girl has released the balloon on purpose, or has let go of the string by accident. The most famous public example was executed on London’s Waterloo Bridge in 2002. Over the ensuing years, it has become a beloved image, the British equivalent of American artist Robert Indiana’s omnipresent LOVE sculpture. Polls have shown that it’s actually the nation’s favorite artwork, period. It proved so popular that, after an online poll, the council decided to keep it. Banksy originals now go for tens of thousands of pounds, and books of his images sell well. Banksy's stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans. The message is usually anti-war, anti-capitalist or anti-establishment. Subjects often include rats, apes, policemen, soldiers, children, and the elderly. The most probable candidate is Robin Gunningham, a Bristol native of whom associates and former schoolmates have corroborated the rumour.

He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of the Streets,” said Hattenstone, “white, 28…” The coincidence has fuelled the belief that our ancient ancestors exterminated Neanderthals, perhaps committing humanity’s first great crime of genocidal violence. However, Britton doesn’t hold to that opinion. Certainly, she doesn’t believe that we caused their extinction in an “intentional act”. There could well have been “inter-species aggression in the same way there was definitely inter-species affection. I’m sure there would have been combat, and that Neanderthals were just as capable as us of making enemies”.

The dismissal of Neanderthals “chimes with that late 1800s outlook”. Today, though, the “pendulum has swung and Neanderthals are seen as being more at one with nature, and we’re the ones who messed up the planet”. Others were more sceptical. “Don’t recall Banksy ever doing a piece made from bog roll and glue,” someone commented. The most prized finds for Britton will be human remains from the Paleolithic. She’ll be using mass spectrometry on tiny fragments too small to be identified as human bone by the naked eye. The team will also use a technique called ‘sedimentary DNA’, where samples of soil are scanned for microscopic signs of any creature preserved there. On 19 June 2002, Banksy's first Los Angeles exhibition debuted at 33​1⁄3 Gallery, a tiny Silver Lake venue owned by Frank Sosa. The exhibition, entitled Existencilism, was curated by 33​1⁄3 Gallery, Malathion LA's Chris Vargas, Funk Lazy Promotions' Grace Jehan, and B+. As ice sheets retreated, opening up Scotland, all these animals - bears, reindeer, wolves - would have been “pioneers into a new world too” along with the humans who depended on them. As the land warmed, “opportunities were revealed and animals and humans alike fill this space. It’s less about being brave and going into the unknown, and more about moving with the opportunities … You can also think of it in terms of this: if all your friends went somewhere wouldn’t you go there too?”

Artist Pete Brown was painting his own version of the scene when the freezer, which was believed to have been part of the installation, was removed on Tuesday morning. A biting critique of mankind’s subjection to capitalist consumerism in the contemporary age, Banksy’s Trolley Hunters was first produced in 2005 for his Barely Legal show. The print depicts three cavemen bearing primitive weapons; in poised, crouched positions, they are shown hunting not for wild animals, but for a herd of supermarket trolleys.Paleolithic hunter-gathers would have moved seasonally in small groups of perhaps 50, but interacted with other ‘tribes’. The life cycle of salmon in Scotland may have played a part in the travels of Paleolithic people. “Animals form a rhythm in the landscape that humans worked with,” Britton adds.