Response to a contemporary artwork: 'Follow your dreams cancelled' by Banksy.

This is by a more recent artist that is doing art in a new way: street art.  This is a piece of graffiti work he did in boston in china town. 

The man in the picture displays drastic value with the whites and blacks used in him. The texture used in the brush adds to the effect and gives the painting a more realistic look. The proportions of the man may not be life size but they look accurately proportioned to each other for their size. I think the emphasis in this art goes straight to the 'cancelled' and then to the mans face. That emphasis is so strong because his face shows the impact of 'his dreams being cancelled.' I think this piece describes a lot of how people and artists in particular feel these days. There is a lot of pressure from society and in "the real world" today of the career we should have, how we should live, and the income we should have. I like this piece a lot because it puts out how we feel and how a fellow artist feels. Kudos to you banksy. 

http://www.banksy.co.uk/index.html