Forget the signature and Fairey's copying of other artists, what about Obama's embracing of a commie propagandist like Shepard Fairey? Isn't that a 'wee bit' more disturbing?
It isn’t about what is disturbing. It is about what will wake up people disposed to be in his camp...ie much of the artist community. Sad but true that exposing the artist as a fraud is more of an indictment in their minds than being a communist, but it offers an inroad into their mindset..ie:
The artist is a ripoff, he is connected to the O and so maybe the whole O-show is a fraud.
You can’t just walk up to someone like this and say that Obama is a commie and expect to get anything but laughed at. Now, I do not mind being laughed at...however the goal is to get people to see. You can’t get people to see by going from zero to 100....you have to take them from where they are, start at the doubt that THEY have and then try to expand it. And you have to remember that they learned a certain distorted American History in school.
If you read the blog of the artist and the comments of the other artists, it is quite encouraging how they see Obama and it is about the first thing I have found that might not be dismissed out of hand or excused by these people. In addition, if the real artists turn, many of the wine and cheese crowd will simply follow them because they are “cool” and “edgy”. True story.