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Rage, The Flower Thrower

Documentary image — educational archive purposes only

extant

Rage, The Flower Thrower

YEAR

2003

MEDIUM

Spray paint / stencil

LOCATION

Jerusalem

COUNTRY

Palestine

[ DESCRIPTION ]

A masked protester throws a bouquet of flowers in place of a weapon.

[ CRITICAL ANALYSIS ]

Identical in composition to the Beit Hanina version, this recurrence of the image underlines its importance to Banksy's practice — it is both a specific response to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a universal statement about the power of beauty in resistance.

[ THEMES ]

peace conflict resistance

[ RELATED WORKS ]

THEMATIC CONNECTIONS

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