Posted on 12/19/2008 12:45:27 PM PST by NowApproachingMidnight
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That can't POSSIBLY be his real name, can it?
Is this the guy who steals his themes, and even his basic layouts, from old Soviet-era Russian propaganda posters, or am I thinking of someone else?
It’s the same commie that steals his ideas from old commie posters. Yep!
I was just on the “Obey plagarist Shepard Fairey” web-site. This guy apparently steals from almost EVERYONE, not just old Russian propaganda posters.
That's so gay.
You have indeed got the right Shepard Fairey.
He is though a legend. He invented the Andre the Giant has a Posse stencil graffiti, and the Andre the Giant OBEY artwork years ago.
And he is not an artist at all times, he is a craftsman or folk artist who freely rips off anything and everything he finds useful.
I don't know if he created this one (below) or if it is just a collage of his motifs from other posters:
Might as well give that website some exposure on FR, I haven’t seen it in almost a year myself, though i first found it through FR.
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
A critique by artist Mark Vallen
Published on the occasion of Fairey’s Los Angeles solo exhibition, Dec., 2007.
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
And this makes him valuable to our society.... HOW?
Shepard Fairey
That can’t POSSIBLY be his real name, can it?
No, that’s a pseudonym. His real name is Alan Stuart Franken, Jr. /s/
He is a theif and a vandal and a communist who is every bit as vile as a neonazi. And now, thanks to Obama hiring him, an official presidential portrait artist.
But don’t blame Obama for being surrounded by Communists. that is divisive and has never fed a starving child, Chicago.
Shepard Fairey went to RISD and barely passed his coursework. however he has a HUGE following due to his Andre the Giant graffiti art. RISD alums control an inordinate amount of mass media design departments on the East Coast.
See back in the late 80’s and early 90’s, white boys who weren’t street tough enough to go out and tag, and white guys who wanted to be graffiti artists but had no talent, were reduced to making stencil graffiti and peel off stickers with graffiti themes. Graffiti is one of the lowest forms of art, and “stencil graffiti artists” were the lowest form of grafffiti artists. And Shepard Fairey is their king.
These lowlifes were also the white boys most likely to whore themselves out to art schools and onward to advertising and media jobs doing layout and design work. This cohort of schlubs are now in their career peaks, and And Shepard Fairey is their king.
This is why he has so much influence in the mass media today.
Make me, Mr. Fairey
He did a Led Zepplin album cover.
People should boycott works with his art.
Imagine that, a commie being hired by a publisher to come up with covers for 1984 and Animal Farm. Somehow, he must think they are warnings of the Bush administration or handbooks for the way to govern.
That insigna was used in World War I before the SS stole it.
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