Art of Politics ["Obey Obama" - Obama's official poster-maker loves Stalin, Mao, etc.]

New York Times Magazine ^ | April 13, 2008 | Rob Walker

[Dajjal]

"Does pro-Obama creativity say more about the candidate or his fans?"

Well, the New York Times asked the question, so it must be worthy to print and all that.

Does the fact that Obama's official poster-maker loves Stalin and Mao say something about Obama, or just Obama's fans?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/magazine/13wwln-consumed-t.html

New York Times Magazine (p.27)
April 13, 2008

The Art Of Politics
Does pro-Obama creativity say more about the candidate or his fans?

by Rob Walker

Obama art

Whether or not Barack Obama would make a good president, it’s clear that he makes an excellent muse. It’s hard to think of a political candidate in recent memory who has, in real time, inspired so much creativity, exercised free of charge and for the campaign’s benefit. Perhaps this suggests something about Obama — or maybe it suggests something about his supporters.

... One of the most prominent is ... the Los Angeles artist Shepard Fairey in January.... Fairey made a brief statement ... noting his “great conviction that Barack Obama should be the next President.” Poster sales, he added, would underwrite “a large statewide poster campaign.”

In addition to popping up on many streets, the image later made its way onto a T-shirt, created in collaboration with the San Francisco street-wear brand Upper Playground — and apparently onto the radar of the Obama campaign. The candidate himself sent a thank-you note, and his campaign had Fairey create a new poster that became the inaugural offering in an “Artists for Obama” section of the barackobama.com online store. Fairey told Creativity Online that while he has been politically active, there’s something new in the enthusiasm he now professes to feel. “I just thought it was time to stick my neck out,” he said....

[weegee]

Democrats know that socialism is unpopular in America. So they have to lie, like Socialists always do, to sell the agenda. They cannot win in the arena of ideas. They cannot debate.

[Dajjal]

Another thread on Shepard Fairey:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1985882/posts
A Style of Obama Poster Not Likely To Be Widely Imitated

[Dajjal]

It dawned on me this morning that, should Obama become the winner in November, Fairey will not disappear. He’d probably become some sort of “Artist Laureate” of the administration. Could you imagine him being the Artistic Director of the Inauguration ceremonies?

[Dajjal]

ROTFLMHO!!!!

The Peoples' Cube is selling t-shirts and mousepads. LOL!!!

[potlatch]

Thanks for the pings Dajjal. Shepard Fairey’s graphics are eye catching and he uses a lot of red which is appropriate considering his ideology.

They have a certain “Peter Max” quality to them and I loved Peter Max waaay back.

http://www.petermax.com/

[dixiechick2000]

You really are an artist. ;o)

Red is my favorite color, and I had a Peter Max T-shirt that I loved.

[Aquinasfan]

[weegee]

VERRRRRY INTERESTING. The hyperlinks for many of the Fairey posters has changed.

Meaning that the exact examples aren’t visible now.

[Dajjal]

Actually, the hyperlinks have not changed. Fairey's "Obey" company has just blocked FreeRepublic from hosting several of his JPGs (though apparently a couple have still slipped through).

So for my most recent Fairey thread I took the precaution of creating a Photobucket folder of his posters.

Viddy well, O my brothers and only friends, viddy well:

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Here's another Amerikkka-hating "friend of Obama."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018880/posts
Obama's On-the-Wall Endorsement ["Obey Obama"]

Shepard Fairey is the artist who designed the official fund-raising set of Obama : Hope / Change / Progress posters, like this one:

Fairey has a company ("Obey") that produces his own artwork, such as these.
See Fairey's website: http://www.thegiant.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Prints

Obama has written Fairey that he admires "the political messages involved in your work."

[weegee]

truth will out.

What kind of socialist posts his posters on public streets and private businesses without consent and then doesn’t want people to discuss the content of his Communist hailing work?

[Dajjal]

LOL!!!

I guess the same kind of hypocrite who cares more about his own property rights than the (intellectual) property rights of the people he plagiarizes.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
by Mark Vallen

(same article as in Post# 8 above)