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Shepard Fairey Damaged Icon Screenprint Obey Giant Face Contemporary Street Art

2018

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Obey Giant Edition Details: Year: 2018 Class: Art Print Status: Official Released: 12/10/18 Run: 409/450 Technique: Screen Print Paper: Fine Art Cream Speckle Tone With Gold Metallic Inks. Size: 18 X 24 In his teens, he began creating his own bootlegged clothing and skateboard decals featuring bands and brands he liked. Fairey’s early bootlegs were created because his generally conservative parents would not purchase the clothing he wanted. In 1986, he stumbled upon the Andre the Giant image for which he has become famous for, in a local newspaper. The image was selected when Fairey demonstrated to a friend how to make a stencil; it was modified slightly to include the meaningless caption “Andre the Giant has a Posse” and made into a sticker. The sticker was reproduced en masse and began to appear around Charleston as it spread through the skateboarding community. While the sticker had no inherent meaning, the public response varied from disregard to curiosity to out-right fear. Civic groups editorialized and theorized that the Andre image was affiliated with everything from a band to a hate group. Nevertheless, the stickers were considered vandalism and in time, Fairey would face numerous charges for defacing public property. Fairey's record includes 15 arrests as of March 2009, for defacing property as a result of his so called bombing campaigns. Fairey affixed the stickers on municipal properties nearly everywhere he went, and the Andre sticker was being seen in Boston and New York City, soon others procured the image and were encouraged to spread the campaign worldwide in the form of stickers, stencils and wheat-paste posters. Following high school, Fairey was accepted to the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where, with an interest in screen printing, he majored in illustration. This Print is very hard to track down as it was given away as part of an Instagram promotion for Obey's Damaged App, developed by VR't Ventures.
  • Creator:
    Shepard Fairey (1970, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2018
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Framing:
    Framing Options Available
  • Condition:
    Print has been stored flat since 2018.
  • Gallery Location:
    Draper, UT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1327212978532

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