Banksy's latest

Banksy's Cosette

Opposite the French embassy, Banksy recently depicted a crying Cosette of Les Misérables with tears in her eyes, caused by a cannister of CS gas, to criticize the French police's use of tear gas against refugees in Calais. 

His previous Dismaland project, a parody on Disneyland, was composed of refugeeboats, paparazzi surrounding Cinderella's corpse, dodgems with skelettons and personnel wearing depressed Mickey ears and a dismal t-shirt.

Meanwhile Brendan O'Neill is spreading his disapproval of Banksy's work. He claims the street artist despises the ordinary man with his "puberal criticism on consumption society". 

O'Neill seems to think street art is about taking risks. The essence of street art never was as superficial: the content of the work is crucial

Why should one refer to anonymous people sharing art as being snobby?

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