BANKSY // Crude Oil Jerry, 2004

  • Banksy’s 2004 Crude Oil Jerry overlays cartoon on classical art, from subversive Crude Oils series.

    Banksy, Crude Oil Jerry, 2004
    Oil and spray enamel on found canvas in artist’s frame
    Stencilled-signed “BANKSY”, lower right

     © Banksy.
     
    In Crude Oil Jerry (2003), Banksy aims at one of Britain's most beloved icons, John Constable’s The Hay Wain. The scene, originally a vision of idyllic rural life, is reimagined with a stark dose of reality and rebellion. Perched in a tree, the familiar cartoon mouse Jerry clutches a fuel can and a lit match, preparing to ignite the countryside below. 
     
    Banksy exposes the fiction of the English rural dream, reminding viewers that Constable’s view of nature was already a fantasy even when it was painted. Constable created The Hay Wain from memory, long after industrialisation had begun to swallow the countryside. By inserting Jerry as the literal arsonist, Banksy invites us to see the lie for what it is – a smokescreen that masks environmental decay and cultural denial. 

     

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