Propeganda
When discussing power in our 300MC theory lectures, we discussed the topic of propegnda as powerful war-time messages. Later that week as I was doing my Christmas shopping, a book really caught my eye. I was a book of work by Shepard Fairey, an American graphic artist who works mainly on making modern propeganda against war and goverment’s powers over civillians.
Shepard, along with other artists, has a campaign called ObeyGiant:
http://obeygiant.com/events/regime-change-starts-at-home-2#more-2812
The idea is to create a constant awareness of these issues within society via graffiti, art and stickers; something that Shepard himself describes as street art in this interveiw:
Looking at his work realy reminds me of the work of Banksy, another graffiti artist, as he not only uses a similar stencil-based approach, but also because of the strong political message behind each and every piece that is made.
Banksy works mainly in Graffiti work, and has remainded an anonymous figure throughout his fame to date. This is due to the fact he would quite probably be arrested, as he has not only been drawing illegal grafitti, but he has been known to swap paintings in galleries for his own work.
Documentary ideas « A place for my head-noise said,
January 22, 2009 at 1:42 pm
[...] still like the work of Shepard Fairey and would like to incorporate similar imagery into an animated section of the documentary. Ideally, [...]