Saturday, March 12, 2011

Mr. Fairey...

We saw this huge Shepard Fairey pasting whilst out and about in Manhattan today.
It's quite suprising just how much of his stuff is dotted around town - it's great!

2 comments:

  1. (Pops at the keyboard again). I wonder if this was inspired by the wall paintings in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? What is a 'pasting' - it looks like very clever graffiti.

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  2. I think his paintings all have some political message, I'm not entirely sure what they are sometimes, most of the time I just think they look pretty!

    'Pasting' is when the artwork has already been created, the designs will have been painted or sprayed onto paper first, in sections - and then the rolls of paper are taken to where ever they're going to be put up... then it's a bit like putting wallpaper up, they just paste it up on the walls (I think it's a similar kind of paste that they use).

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