[donna]

That’s incredible.

[weegee]

I wasn’t the one who discovered it. It was posted to another thread.

There are countless examples of Communist imagery (largely Stalinist, Leninist, Maoist, and Che followers’ works) reworked to celebrate the Obamessiah.

This is a concious image decision within his scampaign.

They are effective images and some of them hit home to the true believer fellow travellers on the left.

Shepherd Fairey’s fans are familiar with his “revolutionary” politics. He is the artist beind the famous CHANGE and HOPE posters that were illegal wheatpasted around cities earlier in the year. It was work for hire and Obama wrote him a letter of praise expressing familiarity with his work in galleries and stuck on stop signs in public.

They know what type of message they are sending. It isn’t a coincidence.

[weegee]

And Shepherd Fairy also ripped off a Nazi Gestapo skull logo for use his trendy t-shirts. Wal-mart later ripped off his rip-off and the whole thing came to the public's attention.

The Art of Politics ["Obey Obama" - Obama's official poster-maker loves Stalin, Mao, etc] (New York Times Magazine ^ | April 13, 2008 | Rob Walker)

OBEY Plagiarist Shepherd Fairey