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Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary street artist, graphic designer,
activist and illustrator who emerged from the street art propaganda scene.
After becoming interested in art as a teen, he started using his drawings
on T-shirts and skateboards. After art school he became known for
his "Andre the Giant Has a Posse" (OBEY) mass sticker
campaign, around Los Angeles. His website says "the sticker has no
meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for
meaning in the sticker".
That
further created the OBEY Clothing line. What started for Fairey with an absurd
sticker he created in 1989 while studying school turned into a street
phenomenon and turned everyones heads. Most people don't know anything
about Obey, like myself, until my roommate told me all about it. I see a
lot of people wearing it, but do they really know why?
Fairey
further became more popular over his Obama "Hope" poster.
Shepard Fairey is one of the most influential street artists of our
time.His work is also used screen-prints, stencils, stickers, masking film
illustrations, wheat paste, collages, sculptures, posters, paintings, and
murals. He primarily works with the colors black, white and red. Fairey has
constantly shifted between the realms of fine art, commercial art, street art,
and even political art (as seen with his Obama poster). There are also a
lot of mock ups made from his posters and ideas. I really like Fairey and how
cool his story is. After research I think everyone should know what OBEY
really stands and comes from.
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