Shepard Fairey Controversy
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- Meeklo0
handsomeboy:
I am surprised no one has brought up the OBEY vs FUCT designs.Do a search buddy
- TNDAP0
People are allowed to critisize art the way they want to as long as its done smart, I love shepard faireys work but lets face it the kid is a biter, I mean I know that some people just get inspired and create something similar to someone elses work, or some references someones elses works, or re-invents something old but dude looks to be purposely searching shit out to rip off...how many time do you bite before its fucking biting and not re-inventing..hummmm?
- Dots_n_Loops0
You can hate all you want but Fairey has put in WORK. He's probably produced more in a week than you have in your whole life mt.
- This is true and irrelevant.mtgentry
- hahahahaPoint5
- McDonalds produces the most hamburgers in one day, but they are not good burgers.dskz
- doesn't he have a studio that does the work?alkanenine
- mtgentry0
Thats an unfair comparison niko. All those guys were created something entirely new conceptually. Shepard doesnt seem to do that.
- admonkey0
Mark Vallen is simply trying to jumpstart his go-nowhere career by bashing someone who actually HAS one. It's a time-honored tradition among the second-rate and failing. The fact that he passed out literature-- including HIS OWN ART-- amongst those standing in line at Fairey's show ought to tell you he's simply an opportunist out to raise his own profile. If he were truly interested in constructive dialogue he would have picked up the phone and made the local call to Fairey to ask him about it. Then, if he wasn't satisfied with the answers-- or at least wanted to include them-- he could have offered up the other side of the coin. Instead, he posted a shrill call of "Look at Me!" in hopes of selling a few more canvases of his Jr. High caliber artwork. Pretty sad, really.
- kelpie0
I'm about a third of the way through the artivle and the writers tone is so overbearingly superior that I am siding with Fairey on principle.
what a pompous dick.
- madirish0
Shepard Fairey was 25....... once.
- version30
24 hour clock
- ukit0
The Number 23
- Jaline0
I'm bored too.
- flavorful0
21 Jump Street.
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- quagmire0
i think what ticked off the author was the general source material shepard fairey was deriving his work from.
- Jaline0
I agree with ukit.
It shouldn't be a big deal that Mark Vallen is calling Shepard Fairey out, especially when he (Vallen) can make a good case for himself. I don't mind reading it as long as it makes sense and is thought-provoking. I'm not sure where I fall in this argument (because whatever art is, it's subjective), but people should stop getting so defensive about questioning an artist. More people should be questioning things.
- Chief0
duchamp, rauschenberg, johns, warhol all appropriated images, materials, and objects. explain to me the difference. was it the fact they were all capable of painting/drawing? or maybe that fairey chooses imagery not quite as famous or as easily recognizable as lichtenstein? where did lichtenstein give credit to the images he was "inspired" by? i don't remember that being something we spoke too much about in art history courses. i didn't get a chance to read the entire article; i'll finish it up later tonight.
- also, wasn't/isn't iso50 doing the same sort of thing?Chief
- acescence0
if it's plagiarism then legal action could be taken, but it would possibly be ruled derivitive and not strictly plagiarised, but to phrase it that way certainly frames him nicely like a "criminal" getting "rich" off of the labor of others.
- ukit0
Yeah but Chief I think the main point of the article was that he used other people's artwork without credit, in fact over the original artists' objections in a few cases. Sure, sounds like this guy is out for him for some reason but that's worth bringing up isn't it?