After the First W orld War, u.K. made a11 industries and public service sector nation -owned to realize her ideal of establishing a welfare state. In 1970’s. however. national finance was seriouslv worsen to the extent that she might need financial assistance from IMF (lntemational Monetary Fundl. In such economic crisis, the Conservative Party won the general election and Margaret Thatcher, the party head, asserted neo-conservatism and economic liberalism, strengthening her own ideology. In this era of rapid change, the arts had to adopt to the rules of market while existing donation programs were either missed or thoroughly reformed. Art and history museums showed more and more market characteristics, because of their dependence on donation from companies. Fu11-time artists also introduced unconventional and innovative theme and material to their artworks to adopt to the market trend at that time. “yBa" could be a very suitable example among those. Those new trend artists built their own style of expression, of never found among conventional artists, and this identity was worth of global attention. Their art represented u.K., and contributed British art to become the center of the world. u.K. society has admitted culture diversities and had social atmosphere respecting minor groups. Her art scenes shows various art genres because she has culture respecting artist' s characteristics regardless of race, sex, age, and social class. Graffiti art has made unique manners in many u.K. cities along with Hip-hop culture since 1980’ s. Graffiti art, which was regarded as symbol of the slum, has changed its meaning into social criticism and resistance, being cheered by young artists. Banksy(Robert Banks) is definitely the top among graffiti artists. He is also renowned with his odd behavior, while unrevealing his appearance and identity. As his popularity increasing, People can easily hear the news that banksy sold his works to celebrities in high costs. Attention for Graffiti art is increasing as Banksy and his works are famous. This master' s thesis covered messages of his art works like vested rights, consumerism, and anti-war. This will be helpful to analyze value of his works as well as understand their popular characteristics. He mostly worked on criticism against mainstream of the society, and they appear as police, military, and politicians. 1n his artworks, they appear to be during an illegal activity that cannot be admitted in the society. Banksy criticizes their duplex acts through his expression. Banksy brings up a question regarding the meaning of consumption in the current society. It is true that people are exposed to tremendous advertisement in this society, and this leads to meaningless consumption while attracted to ad. Banksy cri디cizes media that implants biased thinking to people and tries to persuade people to be free from it, and moreover to examine themselves through his artworks. Media, represented with television, shall be rejected from the current society in that it is the main culprit of making people dim? witted on criticism against consumption. Also, he symbolizes people’s thoughtless consumption with a shopping cart, which needs to be deprived of along with television. War is a repeating theme in Banksy’s artworks and he criticizes its uselessness. His art works, especially, can be seen in pickets for anti-war movements in u.K. He did not limited his stage to u.K. and also visited Palestine. He drew on the Wall of Separation with his wish for peace. His works do not criticizes war, but give comfort to those who live among the war. This way, Banksy wanted to share the responsibility for war with everγone ， and hopes for salvation of mankind from war through his art works. Banksy is one of representative artists of contemporaηT art, and does not put limits on boundary of his stage. He criticizes and mocks irrationality of the current society through his works, and they invite audience to opportunities to judge right and wrong of issues in reality. His artworks, thus, take own rule to provide people with criteria and standards on life.