Focus on: Obey The Giant
May 27th, 2009 |
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Fine Arts, Illustration | 1 Comment
Shepard Fairey also known as Obey the Giant, is one of the most influent street artists of our time. He started the poster and the stickers art phenomenon as a sub-language of street art. Today his works take place in a lot of museums and galleries around the world.
Shepard uses a lot of different artistic techniques like print, stencil, stickers, rubylith, illustration, collage, woodblocks, canvas that bring his style, made of a frequent use of red,black and white. Recently his portrait of Barack Obama brings him to the top of the fame worldwide, his poster became immediatly an icon such as the famous portrait of Che Guevara by Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez. The poster has been included in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC.
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May 27th, 2009at %I:%M %p(#)
in assoluto uno dei più grandi di tutti i tempi!