Flower Thrower

Flower Thrower is a stencil mural by the graffiti artist Banksy, made in 2003 in Beit Sahour in the West Bank. It shows a masked man in the act of throwing a bunch of flowers, and it is considered one of Banksy's most iconic works; the image has been widely replicated. It is also known as Flower Bomber, Rage and Love Is in the Air. Banksy was inspired by images of 1960s protests, among them Bruno Barbey's photographs of the May 1968 demonstrations in France. An earlier version was first drawn in 1999 and presented at his first exhibition in 2000. In 2003 the publisher Pictures on Walls released the motif as a screenprint edition of 150 signed and 600 unsigned copies, with the masked man set on a red background, and a related print overlaying the image on red CCCP lettering appeared in a known edition of eight to ten.