OUIL401- Studio Brief 1- Artist Analysis

Shephard Fairey is arguably best know for the now widely love 'obey' posters, so the fact that he created a poster for a political figure in America could be seen as being a little bit hypocritical? The reason of his creation of the 'OBEY' poster and figure, to me see like it was almost protesting against political domination, and seemed to commentt that we are dictated to 'obey' by a higher power. Now the fact that he created an almost promotional material for a politition seemed a bit counter intuitive.



However, the 'HOPE' image, is now arguably one of the most influential pieces of art within the past 10 years, and I would argue it definitely had a lot of positive feelings generated for Obama. A lot of people seemed to pick up on the hypocrisy of Shephard, and he got a lot of stick for it, which is probably why he reworked the image later on. Very poor play Shephard.