When we think about the ideas of Walter Benjamin and Andre Malraux, we find that they have different ideas regarding the reception of works of art.
However, disagreeing in some things and being in agreement with others in relation to the ideas of this two, the truth is that being confronted with situations implied with this ideas, we can´t sometimes disagree with them.
And I say this because I feel this about the work of English artist Banksy. I say this because I saw most of his work through photographs and I created an idea of his work, and when in a visit to Liverpool I came across with his work and I noticed a difference in be facing a art object and see this work in photos.
And about the work that I realized what Benjamin said, noting that the work of Bansky fell better in his urban support than I thought. But I realized to what Andre Malraux spoke in his “imaginary museum” realizing that the viewing of objects in an indirect way creates in us another parallel reality. Making the two theories valid in its own way.
bansky
it´s a picture, not the real thing