Banksy’s 2004 art piece, Napalm, is one of the most striking and well-known paintings by the anonymous British artist. Picturing Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald holding the hand of a young Vietnamese girl, the work symbolizes the dichotomy between modern capitalism and innocent terror.
This unforgiving piece is similar to many other artists who use satire to portray unfortunate scenes, but this balance between innocence and horror is what makes Napalm such a striking piece. His work is overwhelmingly political, and this piece, utilizing figures everyone knows from their childhood, goes to show how our blind eye in the Western world doesn’t stop the terror occurring in other places – sometimes even propagated by us.