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"The poster changed graphic design history," says Carol A.
Additionally the poster is divided in the middle in a nationalistic way, only including the colors of the national flag of America, red, white and blue, a highlighted blue left side and a darker red side. As one could imagine there is a thin line between Appropriation art and plagriasm, since the artist takes a consisting image or picture, whose rights may are arranged clearly, but nevertheless this can lead to copyright infringement or a legal dispute, as it is with Shepard Fairey’s HOPE poster (cf. Shepard Fairey, in full Frank Shepard Fairey, (born February 15, 1970, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.), American muralist and graphic artist perhaps best known for his iconic 2008 “Hope” poster depicting then U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. Sure is that Obama won the election with a great percentage of voters between the age of eighteen and twenty-nine.
The image is showing Barack Obama in three-quarters profile, focusing sharply into the distance, while wearing a suit. As I stated out earlier Obamas themes were change and hope and after Che Guevaras death, which was followed by various demonstrations around Europe, people also were looking for a change (cf. The research has shown that Shepard Fairey did an incredible job, not only did he create an iconic poster that will be remembered forever, but also he combined the political messages from the democrats with his own perception of Obama, without loosing his way of creating art. DÉCRYPTAGE - Le poster est devenu viral.
There are two intriguing mysteries in the Shepard Fairey case related to how the Obama Hope poster (above right) was created. "I was a senior in high school at the time. And then beneath it said Vote McGovern. I did some tests with a technologist yesterday, and the answer is yes. Holmes np). Soon after Che Guevaras death his main goal was to spread the image as fast as possible “I deliberately designed it to breed like rabbits,” (Holmes np) says Fitzpatrick.
""I think Hillary Clinton is much better for the United States than Donald Trump. The research has shown that Shepard Fairey did an incredible job, not only did he create an iconic poster that will be remembered forever, but also he combined the political messages from the democrats with his own perception of Obama, without loosing his way of creating art.It is to say that the success is caused by the millions of supporters that were hungry for a new, fresh way of showing their support.
"What he criticizes in American politics can be equally applied to Chinese politics." After that, I will start with the actual anal… But since everything has to sides, there was also some critique to the artwork, writers for the Clout column in the Philadelphia Daily News said “the Soviet-style heroic Obama, the use of a single word HOPE” reminded them of George Orwell’s “1984” and Big Brother and in the Los Angeles Times Meghan Daum sees the image as:a half-artsy, half-creepy genuflection that suggests the subject is (a) a Third World dictator whose rule is enmeshed in a seductive cult of personality; (b) a controversial American figure who’s been assassinated; or (c) one of those people from a Warhol silkscreen that you don’t recognize but assume to be important in an abstruse way. Of all of Fairey’s work, the Hope Poster has had the most influence, exposure and cultural circulation. It will be interesting to see the development, we will get know that Shepard Fairey was long before his actual HOPE poster a ”Obamanist”, sharing the same political views as Obama. And we have a copy of the end product that we can hold up next to the original; who cares by what method it was produced?And, it seems, Fairey cares about the creation process, or at least his lawyers do. Shepard Fairey est né le 15 février 1970 et a grandi à Charleston (Caroline du Sud). The image more specifically is ‘hope’ poster featuring Barrack Obama. Clearly the demand was not statisfied yet, so when Fairey uploaded his image on his website, where fans and supporters could get it, it went viral quickly, because the supporters ”started using the jpeg of my image as their email signature and their MySpace or Facebook profile image” (Fairey 8), this gave them the opportunity to show their support in a modern, symbolic way, and they were highly motivated to do so and spread the image (cf. Fairey 8). Moreover, by the time the posters got more recognition, and developed into an iconic statement, the several industries took advantage of and printed for example t-shirts or underwear with the Che Guevara logo, there were even a ice cream version of Che in Australia (cf.