Obama's "HOPE" Poster Artist: Shephard Fairey

various ^ | 11-18-08 | various

[FrdmLvr]

I think Obama met his match. The guy who did the artwork for his campaign poster, L.A. street artist Shephard Fairey shares many of Obama's values and traits. Fairey is a pretentious, arrogant, pompous, self-indulgently and sickeningly hip Socialist as the video demonstrates. I came across this video of him at his show in D.C. in Oct. The name of his show: "Regime Change Starts at Home". It's really not that long, 5 min. or so. I know it's hard to watch these blow-hard arty-types go on about their "important work", but stick with it, you will see some unbelievable renditions of Communist ideals through the eyes of Shephard Fairey.

Obama is evidently not the home-spun Norman Rockwell type. Apparently he leans toward the "Neo-Propaganda" style, which is what Fairey calls it. No wonder the Hope poster looks like it could have been ripped from the walls of a Munich beer hall in 1933.

Fairey also did the famous no-on-Prop. 8, the militant fist pump with the slogans "Defend Equality" and "Love Unites". Militant poster, enlarged:

http://www.motherjones.com/riff_blog/mojo-photo-faireylove.jpg

The real interesting thing about that poster is the pentagram logo in the lower left hand corner. This is apparently Fairey's artists' collective logo. There is a site I found called "Obey" with a couple of typical militant slogans superimposed over a map of the world in some sort of Socialist, world domination, or one-world reference. And this pentagram logo.

Obey website:

http://obeygiant.com/

Fairey video at his art show, "Regime Change Starts at Home":

http://irvinecontemporary.com/video/Fairey.php

[WayneS]

So, does he GIVE away his “art-work”?

[SueRae]

Fairey?

Figures

[steelyourfaith]

Pretentious little bugger. His “art” is more fitting for toilet paper design.

[Free Descendant]

“Women tend to not perpetuate a problem,” he says.

[Free Descendant]

It’s a good thing he mentioned several times that his work is beautifull. I definately missed that.

[Steely Tom]

This has all been done before; it's nothing new.

The last left-wing mutt who tittilated the pseudo-intellectuals of the urban chattering classes went under the nom de guerre "Banksy."

The first was a long time ago. He was clubbed to death by one of the local honcho's lieutenants for mincturating on the honcho's favorite sacred rock.

[FrdmLvr]

Oh, I’m sure he’d LIKE to give his artwork away, but regretfully, his signed HOPE poster is currently going for $700.00 each. Not sure what edition we’re talking about, or how many prints in the edition.

[gimme1ibertee]

“Women tend to not perpetuate a problem,” he says.

Unless the woman is named Sarah.
Or if she’s a Conservative.
Then there’s a HEEEEUUUGGGE problem for the LibRats.

[bvw]

Nice art. With time he may come around, we’ll see.

Welcome to the Neo Fascist State of Amerika. With the bailouts we are already there. Now what?

[weegee]

The man who gave us "Bushitler" as official white house portrait artist. And make no doubt that his portrait of Obam WILL be added to the Smithsonian collection. I think it is only fair and just to make sure that his Ugly AmeriKKKan works ALSO go in there to put the HOPE/CHANGE propaganda in PROPER perspective.

Add in the t-shirt he ripped off from a Nazi SS logo.

[weegee]

His work are stolen from other artists. He should have been doing posters for Biden's campaign.

Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey A critique by artist Mark Vallen

[WayneS]

But if he is a TRUE socialist/marxist he would be giving them away regardless of their monetary “value” in our terrible and unjust capitalistic society.

One might almost get the idea the man is a hypocrite or something.

[FrdmLvr]

Here's why this is so important: As Ayn Rand famously stated, "Art deals with the needs - the refuling - of man's conciousness". She believed art or esthetics was the fifth branch of philosophy. Art is very important to a culture, it reflects personal and societal ideals. It defines society.

For Zero to select this Luciferian Socialist as the artist to put forth his very image, his visual personification, goes to the very core of who he is and who he perceives himself to be, and how he wants to be viewed by the world.

[FrdmLvr]

Really good find weegee. Thanks for the link.

[Dajjal]

Look at this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obama’s Venomous Artist-Fundraiser

excerpt:

The political messages in Fairey's art are:
1) Communist dictators are god-like supermen
2) The United States is a police state at home and an imperialist oppressor abroad
3) Capitalism is an evil system based on greed and exploitation
4) Ordinary Amerikkkan workers are guilty of blithely supporting an unjust system
5) The only good Americans are those who fight The System
6) The communist Peoples' Armies will soon triumph over Amerikkkan imperialism and bring peace to the world out of the barrel of a gun.

Shephard Fairey shares many of Obama's values and traits.

They do indeed.

[Dajjal]

Earlier threads about Shepard Fairey:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2121506/posts
Obama’s Venomous Artist-Fundraiser

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2108861/posts
Obama's communist-inspired icon artist, Shepard Fairey

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099244/posts
2008 Obama Poster Facts (Shepard Fairey: propagandist & fundraiser)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2060894/posts
Obama's Artist/Communist-Propagandist, Shepard Fairey

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040063/posts
Fairey’s $400k for Obama [Marxist Obama Artist & Fundraiser]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040067/posts
This Month in Advertising [new book "E Pluribus Venom" by Marxist Obama Fundraiser]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018880/posts
Obama's On-the-Wall Endorsement ["Obey Obama"]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006110/posts
The Art of Politics ["Obey Obama"]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2006109/posts
Shepard Fairey: Obey Obama [Obama's official poster-maker loves Stalin, Mao, etc.]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001809/posts
Obama's Posters: Message in the Image

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985882/posts
A Style of Obama Poster Not Likely To Be Widely Imitated

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034851/posts
Obama's Propagandistic Iconography: the Making of a Messiah

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034833/posts
Obama's Propagandistic Iconography: the Making of a Messiah

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2003633/posts
The Obama Aesthetic

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122673/posts
Obama's 'Thank You' letter to his communist-propagandist icon artist, Shepard Fairey