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November 02, 2007
Obey The Giant
The Room where Van Gogh died. (Previously, Van Gogh final view)
Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Frank Shepard Fairey created in 1986 in Charleston, South Carolina. Distributed by the skater community, the Andre stickers began showing up in nearly every big city across the U.S.A. Later, when Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), he released his manifesto. At the time Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology." Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become a world-wide movement, following in the footsteps of Ivan Stang's Church of the SubGenius and populist World War II icon "Kilroy Was Here". At the same time, Fairey's work has evolved stylistically and semantically into the OBEY Giant campaign
Art by Jaime Pitarch
The evolution of man, on a wall
A Huge Depository of Unusual Art and Artists Here
November 2, 2007 in Modern Art | Permalink
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