Understanding art - Banksy

Understanding art has always been a delicate subject. While some people are afraid of it (afraid of not understanding it) others are forcing it. Is there a way to bring art closer to those people that are not willing to ‘’cooperate’’. Well, there is one artist that certainly succeeded in this matter, and his name is Banksy. Banksy is the most famous street artist in the world and his art is part of everyday surrounding so you cannot avoid it. Even the big collectors couldn’t resist his original works, so some of them decided to buy a wall, with his work on it, for a price of £208,100! While his effort is well paid and accepted there are still people who from some reason are trying to sabotage his way of art expression, or maybe these people still do not understand the point of art! I’ve posted a text which perfectly explains what I meant by this...

Phil Collins - visual artist

I am currently working on some thesis about two pieces of work done by an artist called Phil Collins. Although everyone tend to confuse him with a very popular British pop singer, I want to accent that it is not him! This Phil Collins is a visual artists that is working in the field of photography and video, and was nominated for a Turner prize in the year of 2006. Anyway, as I am preoccupied with this subject its quite natural to write about it. While I was browsing through the web for his biography and work I came to a video that shows an interesting perspective of art, that is very similar to what I am interested in. He is talking about his Turner prize nomination and at the same time communicating very concuasly with a person that is standing behind the camera. What I find interesting here is the interaction between a viewer and the person that is being viewed.Very similar to this project of his, photographs named Young Serbs, are dealing with almost the same issue- communication between people and different cultures. I've posted two photographs from the his project Young Serbs, and the rest you may find here:
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/WorksList?searchid=24664&tabview=lightbox