In the year 2008, American artist Shepard Fairey created one of the most iconic and highly publicized images. This image was the colorful, politically motivated “HOPE” poster featuring the mug of Barack Obama. Although already an accomplished stencil artist, Fairey gained national attention for the political propaganda of his creation. Not only did his poster allude to the modern ideologies Obama hoped to bring to the White House through Fairey’s use of color and medium, but in effect, made our president as iconic as Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans.
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http://www.infoplease.com/biography/var/shepardfairey.html
http://beiderbecke.typepad.com/tba/images/2008/02/28/obama_hope.jpg
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