Shepard Fairey

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Shepard Fairey

• Obey Giant A Look at Contemporary Screen
  Printing Art

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The Obey campaign can be explained as an
experiment in Phenomenology.The first aim of
Phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder
about one's environment. The Obey campaign
attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people
to question both the campaign and their
relationship with their surroundings. Because
people are not used to seeing advertisements or
propaganda for which the motive is not obvious,
frequent and novel encounters with Obey
propaganda provoke thought and possible
frustration, nevertheless revitalizing the
viewer's perception and attention to detail. The
medium is the message.
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Biography

• Grew up in South Carolina
• Graduated from Rhode Island School of Design
• Became interested in graffiti through his love of
  skateboarding and punk rock music
• Fairey felt that graffiti was an unpretentious
  art, not about money, but a small fame, a sense
  of recognition.

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Biography

• Fairey became interested in silk screen printing
  through his time spent in Providence.
• He started by printing and selling bootleg punk
  t-shirts.
• He then began printing stickers of Andre the
  Giant. The stickers sold quickly and eventually
  started to see them in other towns and states.

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Biography

• He moved from the stickers to posters.
• He began to start printing larger posters and
  placing them on billboards.
• The billboards started to get noticed and soon,
  Shepard Fairey had made a name for himself and
  began receiving art shows.
• Shepard Fairey currently lives and works in Los
  Angeles.
• His work shows all over the country.
• www.obeygiant.com

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• Handout for Relief Curving
• Choose one of the following current issues which
  you feel strongly about and list the positives
  and negatives of the issue in a Multi-Flow
  thinking map.
• Peoples natural rights Currently many people
  feel that national security measures are taking
  away our basic freedoms.
• Childrens rights Today, many children are
  removed from the care of their parents because of
  the governments decision that the parent is
  incompetent.
• Teenage motherhood Some feel that children born
  to teens are more likely to have difficulty in
  life and that the cultural habits of promoting
  giving birth at a young age should be dissuaded.
• Culture in America America for the last 200
  years has been founded on the mixing of cultures
  where for good or for bad.
• Education in America All children are required
  to attend school until the age of 18 with or
  without the childs consent.
• Drug Use in American Some feel that drugs
  should be legalized even with give facts about
  the death, both individually and culturally,
  brought by through their usage.
• Late Term Abortion When does a life begin?
  Today many politicians are arguing against late
  term abortion based on the idea that the fetus
  feels pain. Legislation has been put into motion
  that would ban late term abortion.
• Usage of the body to sell wares Many advertisers
  use the human body to sell goods without

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