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Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60150

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Did you know Shepard Fairy, who also did the artwork for Zeitgeist and merchandise from the 2007 tour, also did this Obama poster? I thought that was interesting, since this poster has become so recognizable. Very intresting....

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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60151

i didn't realize the connection until HU had something about it actually. its a cool poster.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60152

did you read his quote about it?
sounds exactly the same as what Billy said on that "The Hour" interview.

“I’m a populist,” Mr. Fairey said in an interview with a portrait gallery curator. “I’m trying to reach as many people as possible.”

“I love the concept in fine art of making a masterpiece, something that will endure,” he said, adding that he understood, too, how unlikely that is for anyone. “But I also understand how short the attention span of most consumers is and that you really need to work with the metabolism of consumer culture a lot of the time to make something relevant within the zeitgeist.”

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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60158

That poster is really cool. I've never really taken a close look at it, and I like the blemishes and designs in the red.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60164

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That poster has made Mr. Fairey a very rich man, hehe. He's a cool dude, though. Met him last year at his art instillation. My pal and I asked about his SP artwork and, uh, he found Billy to be an arse who wouldn't relinquish reproduction rights to the album artwork.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60165

he seems really cool. i watched him on the colbert report a few weeks back, but i didn't know that he did the artwork for zeitgeist!
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60258

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Trillian wrote:
My pal and I asked about his SP artwork and, uh, he found Billy to be an arse who wouldn't relinquish reproduction rights to the album artwork.

Given that he regularly "appropriates" existing art without giving credit where credit is due, I have very little sympathy for him.
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"The Smashing Pumpkins are your friends! If you need a helping hand, a shoulder to cry on, some euros, can't pay your rent. The Smashing Pumpkins."
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60608

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I framed this for someone recently at my job as a custom framer.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60647

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Ugly Joe wrote:
Given that he regularly "appropriates" existing art without giving credit where credit is due, I have very little sympathy for him.

I wholeheartedly agree.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60659

crazy, I saw that earlier.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60660

melabonbon wrote:
Ugly Joe wrote:
Given that he regularly "appropriates" existing art without giving credit where credit is due, I have very little sympathy for him.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Unfortunately, a widespread and baseless internet campaign to smear Shepard Fairey has been going on for some time now. It primarily revolves around a widely circulated article by artist Mark Vallen, whose evident distaste for Shepard’s work—and obvious lack of modern art world knowledge—led him to jump to a handful of hollow conclusions questioning the originality legitimacy of Fairey’s art...

In his piece, Vallen defines plagiarism as “the deliberate passing off of someone else’s work as your own,” and claims that the difference between Fairey and Lichtenstein is that the latter never laid claim to Mickey Mouse, while Shepard tries to deceitfully sneak his appropriations past viewers in broad daylight. Of course, that couldn’t be further from the truth (the Shepard part, that is). If Vallen had bothered to open “Supply and Demand,” Shepard’s career retrospective book released more than a year and a half before Vallen published his article on his site, he would have seen many of Fairey’s images reproduced side-by-side with the originals that were appropriated or referenced. Clearly there’s no basis to Vallen’s claim that Shepard “filches artworks and hopes no one notices,” when the artist himself is publishing evidence of his appropriation—with accompanying text explaining his process and rationale—and distributing it openly around the world.
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Re:Shepard Fairy's Obama Poster 4 years 3 months ago #60663

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Interesting debates there! However, after seeing the comparisons between the Obama photo and his version, there is no denying that he used the same image.
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