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See, I don't like his style. Apart from (including this, I bet) appropriating other artists' work- many of them black artists, not a good look for a white man- I just think the idea could be executed better. The cop doesn't look menacing enough even though he's dressed that way because the baton is at rest. The flower just looks bad. The idea itself is, shall we say, remarkably similar to a scene in the film Yellow Submarine, where the Blue Meanies try to fire their guns, but flowers grow out of them instead.
Regarding his work overall, the Andre the Giant Has a Posse thing was interesting as a meme, but I've just never thought of him much as an artist. Even the Obama portrait- which he also appropriated- didn't do much for me.
But my personal feelings about Shepard Fairey has nothing to do with whether or not his work should be exhibited.
I don't think it's very good but apparently it was impactful enough as a criticism of the police to get the exhibit delayed (and expose the Mesa city government's bootlicking)
If you really wanna get down to it, the vast majority of art is derivative.
Would I buy it? No. Is it similar to others? Absolutely. That doesn’t necessarily make it bad.(Also, check out cop’s face. That’s a skull.) (also? This guy is Native American, not white. This is an exhibit of native art.)
You need to re-read the article. The guy I am talking about, Shepard Fairey, is white. And it was his art that was the issue. And by 'appropriate,' I mean he directly takes their pictures, slightly modifies them, then sells them. He got sued for doing it for the Obama photo because it's just a copy of an AP photo he added some colors to and the word 'Hope' at the bottom.
Ah.
So he’s a copycat of Andrew Warhol.
Basically.
The picture that AP provides is Thomas Breeze Marcus, the other artist mentioned in the article