This artwork is one of Banksy’s early and iconic pieces from his “Corrupted Oil” series, known for humorously defacing classical-style landscape paintings.

In Corrupted Oil, Banksy hijacks the tranquility of a traditional pastoral landscape and disrupts it with the roaring presence of a military attack helicopter, complete with a comically incongruous pink bow. The clash between the serene, Bob Ross-style scenery and the looming war machine speaks volumes about the intrusion of violence into spaces of peace. It’s a visual sucker punch, made all the more biting by the absurdity of the bow, which both infantilizes and mocks the machinery of war.

Part of Banksy’s “Corrupted Oil” series, this work literally overwrites a found or vintage painting with a stenciled intervention, merging kitsch aesthetics with political commentary. The result is both hilarious and unsettling. The original canvas becomes a battleground for satire, where nostalgia is ambushed by reality, and beauty is framed within the absurdity of modern conflict.

Like a visual remix, Corrupted Oil dismantles both art history and global politics with one spray can and a wicked sense of irony.