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Are you suggesting that Mr. Fairey is not motivated by purely artistic, noncommercial motives?

HaloDutch - June 25, 2009 reply

Not Suggesting

STATING.

Stating as fact for the record.

Rev Halofan - June 25, 2009 reply

Yeah

because artists should starve and never make a cent.

Sorry, sarcasm kicking in.

opiejeanne - June 25, 2009 reply

Is the McDonald's Happy Meal Marketing committee an artist?

Because that is what Shep-F is … minus the meat.

Rev Halofan - June 25, 2009 reply

Wait. McDonald's? Meat? When did that start happening?

Dude, really. Do society a favor and go kick Fairey’s ass for us. Or maybe start putting up slightly modified Fairey “works” as LOSE pics, and let him try to sue you for appropriation.

Stirrups - June 25, 2009 reply

What? I don't know anything about McDonald's

and I have no idea what you’re saying here other than that you don’t like him, but I will try to explain what I meant.

I have three kids who work as different types of artists (all three have day jobs).

One of them refuses to “sell out” i.e. create art that he might have a chance of selling to a larger audience, so he just doesn’t sell it at all. He gives his stuff away and some of it has been sold by his fans. I think he’s foolish for allowing that, but I’m just the mom and he’s nearly 40.

The other two are commercial artists. They are paid for their work, when they can find it.

I was objecting to the idea that the work of artists, whether commercial or purely artistic, is not worthy of respect if the artist makes money on it, as suggested by HaloDutch, and your reply to him.

I hope that makes sense.

opiejeanne - June 25, 2009 reply

Your position makes sense. But in the context of Shepard Fairey it's kind of comical.

One of the most pungent aspects about Fairey is that he is dirivative, to the extreme sense that he outright absconds with the work of other people, modifies it just enough to satisfy his own personal sense of ethos (and well short of what might commonly be considered artistically creative or emotive), markets the crap out of the result in order to redirect public interest away from the original talent, then sues the crap out of anybody who tries to do same to him. And, as Rev points out, Fairley’s muse is not anything internal to his soul, but crassly and cynically targeted for market purposes, then self-promoted via a Walmart-style hijacking of real social phenomena.

Rev’s day job, for what it’s worth, is actually the promotion of artists and the art world. He is an established and referenced art critic. He knows intimately well the challenges of contemporary artists.

Stirrups - June 25, 2009 reply

thanks.

I took a breather and figured out what Rev was saying regarding the hamburger. I was breathless when I first read it because it seemed the utmost non sequitur. I had to chew on it a bit. I see what you and he are saying and I agree that there is no depth in his work, only marketing. I didn’t know about the lawsuits, but I haven’t paid a lot of attention to him. I can’t remember liking anything by him yet; I got a better result than anything I’ve seen by him, by “posterizing” one of my own photos in a photoshop-type program.

And thanks for the info on Rev. It backs up my original opinion of him, that he doesn’t just shoot his mouth off, unlike me.

P.S. None of my kids is all that great an artist; good but not great.

opiejeanne - June 26, 2009 reply

MSNBC is reporting just now Michael Jackson was taken to the hospital in Los Angeles

suffering from a heart attack, and he was apparently not breathing when he reached the hospital.

44FAN - June 25, 2009 reply

The King of Pop is dead.

RIP Michael.

44FAN - June 25, 2009 reply

It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

opiejeanne - June 25, 2009 reply

shame on you

44FAN - June 25, 2009 reply

Imagine all the mass crying jags throughout Japan right now.

Juxtaposed by all the sighs of relief in playgrounds across America…

Stirrups - June 25, 2009 reply

he was basically dead in the field....complete arrest

stories are surfacing it’s drug induced cardiac arrest, which would explain the respiratory depression

arrived in a coma…I haven’t heard how long he was down before being discovered.

As a human being, I’m sorry for the kids and his family. Being MJ, I could care less.

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