Shepard Fairey 'POWer'

Artist:  Shepard FaireyTitle:  POWerSize:   24 x 18 Inches (60.96 x 45.72 cm)Medium:  Screen PrintEdition:  of 450Year:  2010Notes: Hand Signed and Numbered by the artist. Custom Framed. Additional Images Upon Request. Gallery COA Included. Shepard Fairey was asked by his longtime friends at PAPER magazine to guest edit their art issue. He gladly  accepted, and in the issue his friend and PAPER editor Carlo McCormick, wrote an essay about the evolution of visual culture from Pop Art to street art, and the impact of the internet and media saturation. To illustrate Carlo’s essay Fairey created the POW(ER) image. The image is an homage to influential Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein, who appropriated and re-painted comic frames often transforming them in meaning and context. Fairey has often described his art as a fusion of Pop Art, street art, and political art. He utilizes the platform created by Pop Art, but tries to take his work even more directly to the people. Like Pop artists before h