Shepard Fairey - A Hero

The given article, Shepard Fairey and the Art of Appropriation, is incredibly biast. It is clear the author, Jamie O'Shea, sides with Fairey and is demoralizing Mark Vallen's ideas, but in any case I agree. I think Fairey is a genius of street art! i dont care if he uses other images, because they are appropriated to make political statements. he intentionally used approriation in "Greetings from Iraq". the point was to shock people and make them remmeber the earlier piece in contrast to his. I also think Vallen is a schmuck for saying that Fairey is only interested in money! Street art is the least profitable form of work ever. And there is NO WAY that i, as a "second rate art student" could ever make the work of Fairey. I have enough trouble with illustrator let alone having the drive and thoughts of Fairey. It's also ludacris to say Fairey doesnt believe his own work and its leftist ideals. what fool would go against hsi own political stance? its not likes he is making fun of it or anything.

Don't get me wrong, i still stand with my previous beleif that its wrong to steal images and try to pass them off as your own. It was wrong of Fairey to try to hide evidence of his robbery, as stated in the wikipedia article, but i think he uses appropriaton in the correct way in contrast to Jeff Koons.

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