Graffiti was mainly introduced for revolutionary purpose and thus it was more political and social than art work. Examples of these kinds of political graffiti are the works done by Banksy. Banksy work is in the form of satire that has addressed oppression in Palestine and gone further to highlight hypocrisy in politics and capitalist greed in London. He started out in his home town of Bristol where he specialized in spray painting that is considered illegal thus vandalism. Although they are termed as illegal, his work made newspaper headlines and bids of six figures amount of cash in the art galleries around the world (Edwards 2009).

He does his work using the stencil style that he adapted from French graffiti artist, Blek le Rat. After learning to do stencil graffiti he started to track political targets with his work. He moved from his hometown to London where he advanced his political ideas especially his ideologies on globalization and corporate greed. His work advanced to reach the level of incorporating Brandalism. Brandalism is a combination of brand and vandalism that he borrowed from US punk culture. He is a smart artist who choose his public locations cleverly and he is also gone to the extent of attacking brands like Tesco and Nike (Young 2010)