Posted by
AJH on Friday, January 16, 2009 8:02:24 PM
I came across some nice artwork at Breitbart's Big Hollywood mocking the well-known Shepard Fairey Obama poster, which is a great piece of cultural and art history. Although I certainly do not agree with his politics, Shepard is a wonderful artist. His recent work includes a poster for the Johnny Cash biopic film Walk the Line.
I tried hard to get a copy of the original Fairey one, but am still posterless. A print, the “Progress” one I think, was hanging in the local Obama campaign headquarters here in Salem. I inquired about it, but someone else, most likely a higher-up campaign worker, made off with it.
The imitating (im)poster has the theme “Hope” with a likeness of Bob Hope. It is, in my view, ingenious — witty and charming and challenging. Satire is one of the best results of that handy bunch o' words known as the First Amendment. Now, I am looking for a print of the Bob Hope version.
I am working on a piece about the Obama campaign logo designed by Sol Sender. The Right is so out of its element when it comes to design and being “hip” but a new generation of cool cats is working to change that, including Andrew Breitbart, Greg Gutfeld and Dennis Miller.
AJH