SerialSkiller Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 "Most well known for his "Obey Giant" street posters, Shepard Fairey has carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. Infantile posturing aside, Fairey’s art is problematic for another, more troubling reason - that of plagiarism. Lincoln Cushing, Josh MacPhee, and Favianna Rodriguez, worked closely with me on researching this article, having initially brought Fairey’s plagiarism to my attention. Cushing is an art historian and author of Revolución: Cuban Poster Art, Visions of Peace & Justice, and Chinese Posters: Art from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Josh MacPhee is an artist, activist and author of Stencil Pirates: A Global Survey of the Street Stencil, and Favianna Rodriguez is an artist, activist and Chicana print maker. Their invaluable research and documentation provides the foundation for most of what appears in this article..." continued... http://art-for-a-change.com/Obey/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groyn shmoyn Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 cliff notes plz. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 i dont want to be the one to say it.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrChupacabra Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 carefully nurtured a reputation as a heroic guerilla street artist waging a one man campaign against the corporate powers-that-be. LULZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armand hammer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 who cares stencils and posters are fucking gay. oh and it seriously took people 20 years to realize he hasnt once proven to have any artistic skill what so ever and that all he does is make fancy posters and then mass produce them for art fags to buy and put up for him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TugboatTimmy Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 more of this wheat paste guy:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_gacy Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Don't miss the 1st article in this series, Andy Warhol was a biter. It was written by one of the artists that designs banana stickers as well as the artist behind the Campbell's Soup labels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesbian Fisting Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Saw it on HurtYouBad. Its a good read, regardless of how you feel on the dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..romero.. Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 i agree with whoever said wheat paste and stencils are lame.i mean their cool to look at occasionally but for the most part when i see them in like dc or when im in kc i pass by them and take pics of the shit ridin on the highway and whatnot.i recorded rash last night thinking it would be about you know bombing...but no it was a show about a bunch of aussies putting up stickers and shit.i dont want to watch that.i want to watch people bomb shit and get into drunken fights and write on stupid graffwhore titties and shit..goddamn europeans.minus the transit shit they do in berlin and munich i am not a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misterblunt Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 aussies are not europeans. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..romero.. Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 i wonder if shepard can really draw though.i would like to see if he has any skills with the pen and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Shepard Fairy is fucking faggot. LAME THREAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..romero.. Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 aussies are not europeans. more or less.they came from england...they have a bit of a different swagger about them but they are still more or less englismen.i like australians for the most part.i just dont want to sit through 2 hours of you putting up stickers on stop signs and pretending like your actually risking your freedom and personal safety on the same level as a dude hanging off a ledge trying to put his name up.i got alot more respect for bombers than i do for stencilists and shit. just sayin yo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesbian Fisting Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 i wonder if shepard can really draw though.i would like to see if he has any skills with the pen and whatnot. He went to RISD. He can draw. Draw other peoples work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MedicineCabinet Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 "i trace for a living" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Veritably Clean Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 at least banksy can do a sketch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuco Salamanca Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armand hammer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 banksy and fairy areboth faggots i bet banksy stencilsfairys back whilst he pumps his ass full of hipfaggotry.i couldnt care less if this faggots rich he made a career through biting we all know this but who cares right its marketable hopefully the yuppies ask for a refund on all of thier "original"works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeenagerFromMars Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 di5 n199a g0t d0p3 st3ns1lz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armand hammer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 hemad? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Getoe Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellyphant Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 That "plagiarism" article is absolutely useless Like it's a damn scoop to find out Obey is inspired by Russian propaganda aestetic? Trying to hurt his career, being some jealous cunts that have nothing to say? The fuck out of here, Giant was never considered an 'artist', he just paste freaking poster all ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosluggo Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 WHO CARES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesbian Fisting Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 That "plagiarism" article is absolutely useless Like it's a damn scoop to find out Obey is inspired by Russian propaganda aestetic? Trying to hurt his career, being some jealous cunts that have nothing to say? The fuck out of here, Giant was never considered an 'artist', he just paste freaking poster all ready. He wasnt inspired. He straight up copied works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yinz n'at Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 good article.. that dude sucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoHuxtable.. Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 i wonder if shepard can really draw though.i would like to see if he has any skills with the pen and whatnot. This is a true story... I went to one of his gallery/shows, and outside somebody had a blackbook and handed him a Sharpie and said "can you hit my book bro". And he had a confused look on his face, and said "I don't really write, but here", and grabbed an Andre The Giant sticker out of his pocket and slapped it in his book. :lol: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tuco Salamanca Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 :lol: he coulda just signed his name and added an arrow or two Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 You have to see this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 Copying shit is the future of the 2 thousand teens art seen. Mark my words, motherfuckers will be getting mad plagiarism fame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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