Frank Shepard FaireyFrank Shepard Fairey is a really famous artist known from his amazing artwork. He was born on February 15, 1970. He is from Charleston, South Carolina. Shepard started painting and drawing at age 14 and he just felt in love with it. He was very talent, and he was accepted at one of the most difficult school of arts to get in to it, Rhode Island School of Design. He graduated college in 1992. Shepard started experimenting street art. He would use stickers, and he would put in wall and stop signs. His first big experiment that went viral was his stickers known ...view middle of the document...
Even Obama sent himself a thanks note for this poster.After this political piece of artwork, he started doing more and more art that criticized the status quo and corporate culture. One of his art work that criticize corporate culture, is the image of this little girl I'm drawing and painting, this artwork is called "War by Numbers." Even thought this picture is only a little girl holding a bomb that looks like a flowers, there is a whole meaning to it, and its very interesting the meaning of this piece of art. The meaning about this artwork is that even thought we protect the kids in our country, but we kind of show how it is fine to bomb kids from other countries. The little girl looks very innocent and she looks like a normal kid, but she is holding a bomb, because there is what U.S military are doing to kids from other countries and the rose in the girls hands that is actually the bomb show how we are kind of trying to show the people in our country how this is fine.Fairey it is one of the street artist that stand out the most, and put his opinion out there, he not only uses his art to express his thoughts but to show what is wrong with the world we live in. He is not scared of what will happen to him, he doesn't change his voice or don't let people know who is he, he is proud of his artwork and his point of view in things.
