Shepard Fairey Controversy
Shepard Fairey Controversy
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I had the good fortune of seeing Fairey's work at the show in Boston this past August and then seeing some of Rauschenberg's and Motherwell's in New York the next day. If Fairey owes anyone some props these two guys will suffice. What Fairey has been doing (and doing pretty well for a number years) is playing with easily accessible material and then applying his own particular point of view and technique to convey the image he wants us to experience. Sometimes it is cropped, flipped and augmented then serigraphed; sometimes it is via spray paint and stencils; sometimes through a shit load of xerography and wheat paste and lord knows what else. This is not plagiarism - this is collage.