Shepard Fairey, the Guerilla artist who created the famous Obama Hope poster, is the subject of a retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. NYT | Slideshow | prev. 1 | 2
The asthmatic Fairy is no rebel. He appropriates (steals) others' images and cultural identities to establish his own commercial agenda (i.e., make money). He poses as a "street" artist while bending over backwards for acknowledgement from the mainstream- evidenced by jean companies, soda companies, the upcoming saks etc. His work adds increased filth to the cities, encouraging other amateurs to wheatpaste their "art". His work is so much imbedded in the obviousness of it, the phony rebel stance that is adopted by college students wearing Che shirts, that it is laughable and nothing more than one-liners. In addition, this has nothing to do with architecture.
i went to a cooffee house yesterday and they had his prints on the walls. they were printed on a substantial paper and must be at least $200 each. good goin' shepard! i am certain he is printing money in every sense.
his chosen medium allows him to do the obvious slogans.
raymonde is right but none of that stuff is stoppable. he'll be consumed just like iphones are consumed. then there will be another t-shirt and poster.
i have a bumper sticker that says "i am pro-noun" a play on being a writer and living in branding times... you can also have "i am pro-verb" but my friend didn't do the latter.;.)
what is wrong with one-liners is that this is not an intentional joke. it may seem like one, but it isn't.
'mission accomplished' has nothing to do with this, so no need to throw that agenda in here whether you stand on one side of the fence or another.
rauschenberg, while also appropriating imagery, cannot so much be accused of stealing as reintrepreting them into an other aesthetic that can be termed 'his'. it has been tweaked out of proportion and mixed out of scale(s). whether or not he ever paid anyone for the use of said imagery is a different matter altogether.
this kind of stealing was often used by warhol and his ilk, without repercussions (at least moral ones).
i never said that what fairey does is graffiti. in fact, it is nothing close to it, but some shlock poster images. some good graffiti work for example is done by parla and the later work of lee quinones. but it is still straight up vandalism if not requested by the owners of the property.
ICA, the random building designed by diller and scofidio and the third one, i.e., the real architect of the firm, is a totally nonsensical space, occupying much space and displaying even less.
and once again, this does not have anything to do with architecture.
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The asthmatic Fairy is no rebel. He appropriates (steals) others' images and cultural identities to establish his own commercial agenda (i.e., make money). He poses as a "street" artist while bending over backwards for acknowledgement from the mainstream- evidenced by jean companies, soda companies, the upcoming saks etc. His work adds increased filth to the cities, encouraging other amateurs to wheatpaste their "art". His work is so much imbedded in the obviousness of it, the phony rebel stance that is adopted by college students wearing Che shirts, that it is laughable and nothing more than one-liners. In addition, this has nothing to do with architecture.
i went to a cooffee house yesterday and they had his prints on the walls. they were printed on a substantial paper and must be at least $200 each. good goin' shepard! i am certain he is printing money in every sense.
his chosen medium allows him to do the obvious slogans.
raymonde is right but none of that stuff is stoppable. he'll be consumed just like iphones are consumed. then there will be another t-shirt and poster.
i have a bumper sticker that says "i am pro-noun" a play on being a writer and living in branding times... you can also have "i am pro-verb" but my friend didn't do the latter.;.)
what's wrong with one-liners? what's good for President "Mission Accomplished" should be fine for Shep.
I guess Rauschenberg is a thief too.
He may have jumped the shark a while ago, but not because kids liked his work, but because i think he liked that kids liked his work.
Che is responsible for Che shirts.
Rage Against The Machine is another example of fake outrage.
I don't think graffiti in and of itself is filth.
This does have something to do with architecture.
Making it in ICA and raymonde's feigned outrage is also "predictable" and has "nuke the fridge" written allllll over it.....
what is wrong with one-liners is that this is not an intentional joke. it may seem like one, but it isn't.
'mission accomplished' has nothing to do with this, so no need to throw that agenda in here whether you stand on one side of the fence or another.
rauschenberg, while also appropriating imagery, cannot so much be accused of stealing as reintrepreting them into an other aesthetic that can be termed 'his'. it has been tweaked out of proportion and mixed out of scale(s). whether or not he ever paid anyone for the use of said imagery is a different matter altogether.
this kind of stealing was often used by warhol and his ilk, without repercussions (at least moral ones).
i never said that what fairey does is graffiti. in fact, it is nothing close to it, but some shlock poster images. some good graffiti work for example is done by parla and the later work of lee quinones. but it is still straight up vandalism if not requested by the owners of the property.
ICA, the random building designed by diller and scofidio and the third one, i.e., the real architect of the firm, is a totally nonsensical space, occupying much space and displaying even less.
and once again, this does not have anything to do with architecture.
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