Shepard Fairey: Process
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- sea_sea0
IMO.. he's taking the time to do something creative (yes i know some will object to that) but he's working and as far as i'm concerened it looks friquen fun. good for him and may he live long and prosper.
- Anders0
Anyways, who's the shit?
- mifune0
art class 101. meh.
- SigDesign0
eh... I don't know... anytime I get to see somebody's process I love it... no matter how bad the outcome, you can always learn something about your own work, whether it be what to do or what NOT to do...
- identity0
shepard fairey is the thomas kinkade of my generation
- if you knew kinkade, you'd take that back. kinkade is a cock sandwich.spifflink
- fairey is only half of a cock sandwich who produces decent results himself, without resorting to paying people to paint for him.spifflink
- one in the same my friend - one in the same... nothing to do wtih production... Michelangelo has an entire school working for himidentity
- had*identity
- but you're right - i've never met Kinkade... don't mean to slant Fairey on those terms...identity
- Michelangelo having schools of students working for him, not the same as kinkade's factory full of elderly ladies.spifflink
- ian000
that video made me think of Phil Frost
- pressplay0
this has nothing to do with art... it‘s craftsmanship, it‘s decorative shit fueled with a lame political message that is meant to be provocative but actuelly everybody can agree upon (weapons are bad (use a stencil of some dangerous looking weapons) pollution is bad / big companys are evil (use a stencil of a whale with a coca cola can in it‘s blowhole) do not forget some surveillance cameras here or there
- baseline_shift0
^^^i wondered the same thing
- jimzyk0
he needs a disguise.
like banksy,
if he was anonymous, he would be better.he should change his name to fepard shairey and paint pictures of cops
- 23kon0
Its true that theres not much skill to the artwork he does and anyone can borrow from the classics.
I'm sure that most of us creatives on here could knock up the same sort of stuff if we had the time to do so. I've done a few stencil canvases in the past few years, one is a 'fake futura' that I did for myself cos I like his work and wanted a big canvas for my livingroom.If I had the time then i'd love to do more stuff like that, and definitely jealous of these guys who can do this kind of work fulltime and make a living from it - doing work that YOU want to do and being your own client rather than having to deal with the crap that us commercial designers have to deal with lol.
- Amicus0
craftsman and master repurposer... not artist.
- 23kon0
no masks?
he will die young.makes the whole thing even more 'rock n roll', eh? lol
- Point50
part of me wants to hate on it just to agree with the masses here, but I can't. Not only am I incapable of that proces (I'd have no clue where to start or finish... or what to do in-between), but I do like the final product. I might not like everything Fairey does, and I might yawn a bit when he gets on his soapbox, but I thought that was a pretty cool short video.
- ximeraLabs0
I was about to say... I wonder if he uses masks because that amount of spraying paint & glue can't be healthy.
- ceiling_cat0
I'm concerned about his lungs
- francoisfido0
not that i really give a fuck, but blankly stating that the use of any specific technique (stencil) in applying paint to a surface (canvas) is not 'painting' is narrow-minded, retarded, and simply incorrect.
- I'm all of the above... and I'm also a painter I guess. :)PonyBoy
- lukus_W0
^ I'd agree that there's something innovative (or once was something innovative) about the 'post-modern' mash-up. It's irreverent in the best way, ensuring that only the best of each borrowed-medium is used as an ingredient. But it's also too often used as process because it's so easy to participate. There's still something about the process that makes me feel that we're being short-changed. I don't want societies' output to constantly dumb-down and pander to my short attention span.
I remember reading a review of 2manyDJ's when it first came out which likened the album to a McDonald's milkshake -> lovely at first but makes you feel a bit sick if you try to finish it. I feel the same way about Mr Fairey's work.