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ALL YOU GUYS SAY THIS SAY THAT, WHY CAN'T YOU GET THE MESSAGE THAT LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL...

AS FAR AS THE COMMENTS MADE AS TO BANKSY: FRUCK ALL THE BS AND LOOK AT THE MESSAGE. BANKSY DOES IT FOR FREE, HE DOES IT TO SAY HE CAN, NO ONE KNOWS WHO BANKSY REALLY IS? CMON MAN, EVERYONE KNOWS WHO HE IS...

SHEPARD GOT BRAINWASHED BY THIERRY INTO THINKING HE WAS A FILM MAKER, THEN SHEPARD INTRODUCES HIM TO THE WORLDS MOST FAMOUS YET UNKNOWN STREET ARTIST? GIMEM A BREAK AND ALL YOU HATING ON BANKSY, KEEP HATING, IM A KEEP RAKIN IN THE DOUGH

Warhol, Richard Prince and many others have indeed appropriated. And it got Warhol a lawsuit over his famous daisies poster, whose original photographer just happened to notice hanging in a gallery window.

Let's not forgot the Jeff Koons incident with the Michael Jackson and puppy sculptures either. Damien Loeb based a great deal of his career on simply painting movie stills. But they all admitted their guilt when pressed. Fairey defends himself to the hilt and denies the lazy thievery evident in the link http://bit.ly/IUYJ A simple scroll down the page will give you a clearer picture of this barely clever mixmaster with Photoshop. Or Illustrator, to be more precise.

just listening to the interview, I'm appalled at the hypocrisy of Shepard Fairey. I'm fine with the fact that he is a designer/illustrator and has an overpriced clothing line for hipsters, which he claims is inspired by the street, but I don't see how he can be taken seriously in the art world. Is this simply because he is doing mural paintings like Banksy? It's all a little too sentimental.
Although, I predict the show will go over well at Deitch.

Robert from Pennsylvania,
The art world/art commerce shtick continues. But times are a changing. Big money has been burned by the art marketers and hucksters so money is leaving.

To Robert from PA, makes me wonder what you think of Andy Warhol or Richard Prince and how they appropriated for their own benefit. And look where it got them.
Street art is barely 30 years old, and both Fairey and Banksy have certainly changed/contributed to it in major ways.

This artist's "work," like his way of presenting himself in this interview, is so passe, derivative, and transparently manipulative that I'm having trouble believing WNYC chose to give him air time.

As described, intellectually, Banksy sounds about as unoriginal, banal, superficial and redundant as it is possible to be.

If his art is to have any value at all, it is going to have to stand on its aesthetic merits alone, whatever these might be.

did he say immolate!! Maybe he meant emulate?

Perhaps the only thing lamer than Banksy's "great" art is the fatuousness of Fairey's apology for it. See Anthony Lane's review of the film in The New Yorker for a plain critique of this commercial junk.

Spot on Robert. Shepard Fairey and Banksy are simply retail Urban Outfitters artists. The hype is ridiculous.

Please.

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

How did Shepard Fairey got Know Banksy? Banksy has been around a long time. Shepard Fairey is a new arrival to glitz.

Why doesn't anyone mention the fact that Banksey is obviously a Brit?

I cannot begin to express how ironic it is that Shepard Fairey, the Peter Max of the sheep that hipsters are, has the audacity to discuss anyone or anything being a fake.

http://bit.ly/IUYJ As Peter Max before him, Fairey is simply a second rate art director who doesn't just borrow, but consistently plagiarizes as the link illustrates. Yet hippies knew Peter was simply a Madison Avenue shill for Coke and Love Cosmetics. The Shepard's blind followers from the hipsters to the art collectors refuse to question his ethics or his aesthetic. They will eventually, I hope, see their Mark Kostabi of the moment unmasked.