BANKSY // Landscape with Car Wreck, 2005

  • Banksy’s 2005 Landscape with Wreck modern twist on pastoral painting, features destroyed vehicle.
    Banksy, Landscape with Car Wreck, 2005.
    Oil on canvas. Unique. Original work missing. Dimensions unknown.
    © Banksy.
    This work belongs to Banksy’s celebrated “Crude Oils” series, in which the artist disrupts traditional oil paintings with his trademark stencilled interventions. In Landscape with Car Wreck, a peaceful landscape is intruded upon by the jarring presence of a crashed vehicle, starkly breaking the illusion of romanticised countryside life. The juxtaposition highlights the absurdity of nostalgia in a world shaped by modern disruption, environmental decay, and mechanised catastrophe.
     
    By hijacking found canvases and inserting contemporary symbols of chaos, Banksy creates biting social commentary rooted in both art history and street culture. The series draws influence from Marcel Duchamp’s readymades and Pop Art’s embrace of appropriation, reframing elite painting traditions with irreverent wit. 

     

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  • “All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?”

    – Banksy

    Created as part of the Crude Oils series, Landscape with Car Wreck reworks a traditional oil painting by inserting the image of a crashed car into a pastoral setting. The incongruous detail disrupts the romanticised view of rural life, transforming the found canvas into satire. The piece critiques environmental degradation, the fragility of nostalgia, and society’s uneasy relationship with industrialisation.
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