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1 the ridiculing of the statute of liberty is similar to the situation that stands for the word

2 the ridiculing of the statute of liberty is similar to the situation that stands for the word

3 the ridiculing of the statute of liberty is similar to the situation that stands for the word

4 cameras are existing everywhere, a whole civilization is being watched.

5 a fantastic pathway through a wall for a better future

6 Blood for oil

7 throw ur tv to the garbage

8 passion for tv

10 human humilation- guantanamo

Athens ,07/11/2011Protest against the brutality of the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:05:36 +0000

Athens ,07/11/2011

Protest against the brutality of the police

Photos from the protest

Some very nice & funny pads that i find today on the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:05:01 +0000

Some very nice & funny pads that i find today on the internet

Warning - This video contains disturbing imagesVideo from the...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:04:00 +0000

Warning - This video contains disturbing images
Video from the brutal beating of a protester from the police

Athens 11

05/11/2011

Why i choose this project

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:36:00 +0000

The reasons that made me to pick this subject for my MA project was mainly because of the strong feelings I have for my fellows and all the people around the world. In general If someone asks me do describe myself I could easily say that I think myself as an activist and this project gave me the chance to express my political views. I chose to make a book from a set of political contents stencils that anyone can cut and use it accordingly.

Target of the project

Wed, 16 Nov 2011 11:50:00 +0000

Do you have a passion? Are you an activist? Nearly all art is in some sense political, but this is not always the main goal of the artist. What makes political art what it is, is that the message is the primary purpose. The artist starts with a political statement that she wants to make and uses images to most effectively convey that message.

    ◦    1 Figure out what you want to say. In order to make good political art or any good art, you need passion as well as know how. Are you moved by war, global warming, racism, homophobia, or some other big issue? Do you have something to say about your community or your generation? Brainstorm and find what speaks to you.  
    ◦    2 Narrow it down. Past a certain point, the broader your art is, the less effective it will be. If you want to make an anti-war painting, for example, don’t paint war in general. Instead, portray a certain event in a certain war. It is easier to take one event and use it as an allegory for a bigger issue than to take a big issue and make a statement that applies to individual events.  
    ◦    3 Do some research. It isn’t that you need to get the details right and make political art that is realistic. Rather, studying an issue will get you thinking about it and get your ideas flowing.  
    ◦    4 Decide on a style. Political art does not have to be high art. Indeed, a lot of the most effective political art is stencil art, done in a simple, bold graphic style that conveys a direct message.  
    ◦    5 Think about display. Political art is supposed to make a statement, so how you show your art is part of it. Think about putting posters up around town or doing performance art at a protest. You could even organize a fundraiser, getting together with other artists to sell political art to fund a cause you all believe in.

Athens , 05/11/2011Protest against the brutality of the...

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:20:00 +0000

Athens , 05/11/2011

Protest against the brutality of the police

Photos from the protest

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:28:00 +0000

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1 obvious political messages

2 what it gonna be the revenge of mother nature??

3 see you in hell

5 the violent police officers going for an ice cream

6 we are all prisoners

7 the world is STILL alive

9 Voina (meaning “war”) are no strangers to controversy after painting a 60-metre phallus on the Liteiny Bridge in St Petersburg pointing towards the ex-KGB offices

10 Bush , Oil war scum

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:22:00 +0000

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3 Change

4 propaganda makes the little child to adore obama

6 no comments/vote

8 fragile piece

9 there is always hope

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:19:00 +0000

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1 anorexia makes you look nice?

2 women are women and not chicks

3 who profits from your pride ? obvious message, at the top of the image there are the big companies that stealing people, cnn, motorola etc

5 american dead soldiers from the war

6 a prisoner from guantanamo - on the left of the prisoner there is a moto called the new american dream .. the moto says : occupy land.. steal oil…the american dream…

7 Dictator

9 believe in your self, not in politics,disagree with the image - obama is the same thing like the previous presidents of the US

10 Soldiers that looking for piece ( Banksy )

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:42:00 +0000

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2 shell i think is the petrol company of bush or the goverment petrol company- dont let shell kill again

3 kill bush

4 freedom

5 prisoners of capitalism

6 life is better with out roses. i think roses is for death

7 religions fanatism

8 mcNato, killing/eating people

9 head of sadam hussein with merry christmas. Sadam hussein has been executed( was sentenced to death by hanging) and executed at 30 of december . someone was taking video the execution and the worldwide tv channels show the execution video

10 no more nuclear tests in the pacific ocean

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:35:00 +0000

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1 leave your cars,take bikes

2 the same

3 bikes provide autonomia

4 deaths for the bosses to get richer

5 obvious

6 daddy come home

7 capitalism - our end

8 nazi eagle throwing bombs

9 earth ready to explode

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:16:00 +0000

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2 when i saw that image i shocked…we scare because we care

3 the heart of the city should be as people and not the cars/ecological message

4 ecological message

5 prisoners of our tv

6 for tv…attention-brain burning

7all we need is love

8 care

9 free banksy

10 the same as before

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Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:13:00 +0000

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1 political message for palestine - zionism are the israels

2 end the occupation - free palestine

4 vote hippies ( hippies are the ”childs of piece”)

5 peace is not a fashion statement

6 obama speaks to america

7 obama - us

8 did you know that i m living close to you ? people now are so alone that they dont know even their neighbor

9 you are monitored

10 sleep is commercial … nobody cares..all are sleepers …..shocking !!

Shepard Fairey

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:15:00 +0000

Shepard Fairey website : http://obeygiant.com/

Shepard Fairey Biography :

Shepard Fairey, born 15th February 1970, is a street artist and designer well known for his thought-provoking, and often controversial, designs. Graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, Fairey’s first major work was reproducing black and white images of the wrestler Andre ‘The Giant’ Roussimoff. The posters, paper and vinyl sticker reproductions of the wrestler were originally targeted at punks and skateboarders, but eventually became a more widespread phenomenon. They featured an appropriated image of the wrestler with the words ‘ANDRE THE GIANT HAS A POSSE 7’4in, 520lb’, but after the threat of a lawsuit against the use of the trademarked name ‘Andre the Giant’, Fairey applied the word ‘Obey’ to the same image instead. This was also to become iconic and a decisive move in Fairey’s career, particularly in subsequent works which featured the ‘Obey’ word without any associated image.

The ‘Obey’ sticker campaign, according to Fairey’s website, was an experiment in phenomenology. Fairey says, ‘The ‘Obey’ campaign…had no meaning, except to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning…’. The intention was to provoke people through disassociating words with images that normally have an underlying motive (i.e. to sell a product). Fairey was responding to the effects of subliminal commercialism on audiences, prompting them to question their own role in digesting and utilising information and to get them to think beyond their own existence. Subsequently, the ‘Obey Giant’ street art campaign, which was posted throughout the streets of California, led to Fairey’s arrest on a number of occasions (as it is essentially a form of graffiti); an effect which resonates in many of his more contemporary works as well!

Fairey, who himself is a member of the punk and skateboarding sub-culture, attributes his rebellious art streak in part to this, as well as Soviet-era propaganda, 1960s-era psychedelic rock poster art and paintings from Works Progress Administration campaigns, all sources from which Fairey derives great inspiration. One of his more recent controversial works was a series of posters titled ‘anti-war, anti-Bush’ which he created in collaboration with artists Robbie Cond and Mear One in 2004. Images in this series include the former President, George Bush, hugging a bomb and another depicting George Bush as the devil. The Obama poster campaign, however, was a shift away from this. It did not hold that antagonistic streak reflected in these previous campaigns, but rather the Obama posters captured Fairey’s own forward looking and hopeful prospects for a new direction for the United States.

The first Obama poster produced by Fairey, which he dubs his ‘grass roots’ poster because it was produced without any connection to the official Obama Presidential Election Campaign, showed a portrait of Obama (gazing upwards in the guise of a visionary leader) with the word ‘Progress’ underneath. Initially, official Obama campaigners kept a distance from the poster, but eventually embraced it, asking Fairey to produce two revised versions. The first replaced the word ‘Progress’ with ‘Change’ and the second used the word ‘Vote’. Fairey estimates that some 300,000 posters were produced for the campaign altogether, in addition to 500,000 stickers and badges. The Museum has three examples of Fairey’s work related to the Obama campaign and victory in its collection, including the President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden inauguration poster, a ‘Hope’ badge and ‘Yes We Did’ car bumper sticker.

Apart from initiating his own art campaigns, Fairey does select commercial work (he helped to develop a design firm called Studio Number One for this) and he designs for album art, skateboards, film posters and clothes (he also has his own clothing line which came about as a result of the ‘Obey’ sticker campaign). Examples of Fairey’s commercial work includes designs for the Black Eyed Peas album covers for ‘Elephunk’ and ‘Monkey Business’; the 2009 promotional material for the Earth Hour initiative and a range of creative branding designs for Pepsi, Nike, Electronic Arts, Hasbro and Netscape, among others.

from http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/theme,1478,Shepard_Fairey_Biography

Banksy

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:34:00 +0000

Website : http://www.banksy.co.uk/

Biography :

Banksy is our most famous graffiti artist, born and bought up in Bristol, his artwork has appeared throughout London and other locations around the world. Despite this he has carefully managed to keep his identity a secret.

Banksys artworks are often satirical pieces of art on topics such as politics, culture and ethics. The art Movements he explores are Anit-capitalism and consumerism in pieces such as; Banksy, print, signed ‘Barcode’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Very Little Helps’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Morons’ (sepia). Banksy, print, signed ‘Morons’ (white). Banksy, print, signed ‘Donut Strawberry’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Donut Chocolate’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Destroy Capitalism’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Sale Ends Today’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Because I’m Worthless’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Trolley Hunters (Trolleys). Banksy, print, signed ‘Trolley Hunters (Monochrome). Banksy, print, signed ‘Serpentine Can’t Beat That Feeling’ And Banksy, print, signed ‘Christ with Shopping Bags’. Anti-War in works such as; Banksy, print, signed ‘Have a nice day’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Gold Flag’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Applause’. Banksy, signed, print ‘Napalm’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Golf Sale’. Banksy print signed ‘Bomb Hugger’. Banksy, print, signed ‘CND Soldiers’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Flag’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Happy Choppers’ And Banksy, print, signed ‘Stop and Search’. Anarchism in; Banksy, print, signed ‘Love is in the air’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Flying copper’. Banksy, print, signed ‘I fought the Law’. And Banksy, print, signed ‘Rude Copper’. And Atheism in; Banksy, print, signed ‘Virgin Mary’ (Toxic Mary). Banksy, print, signed ‘Christ with Shopping Bags’.

Banksy’s stencils feature striking and humorous images occasionally combined with slogans; Banksy, print, signed ‘Because I’m Worthless’ and Banksy, print, signed ‘Get Out While You Can’ Subjects often include rats; Banksy, print, signed ‘Love Rat’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Radar Rat’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Welcome to Hell’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Gangster Rat’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Sonic Rat’. Monkeys; Banksy, print, signed ‘Laugh Now’. And Children; Banksy, print, signed ‘Jack and Jill’(Police Kids). Banksy, print, signed ‘Girl with Balloon’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Nola ‘(Grey Rain). And the elderly; Banksy, print, signed ‘Bombing Middle England’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Grannies’.

Banksy is also famous for ‘graffiting’ notable art pieces in 2004 he walked into the Louvre in Paris and hung on a wall a picture he had painted resembling the Mona Lisa with a yellow smiley face. Also in this vein are; Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (green). Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (grey). Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (pink). Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (brown). Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (red). Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (purple). Banksy, print, signed ‘Kate’ (Original Colour) And Banksy, print, signed ‘Soup Can (Quad)’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Soup Can’ (green/red). Banksy, print, signed ‘Soup Can’ (orange/red). Banksy, print, signed ‘Soup Can’ (yellow/green). Banksy, print, signed ‘Soup Can’ (turquoise/pink). A yellow smiley face is also to be found in; Banksy, print, signed ‘Grin Reaper’.

In August 2004, Banksy produced a quantity of spoof British £10 notes substituting the picture of the Queen’s head with Princess Diana’s head and changing the text “Bank of England” to “Banksy of England.” Banksy, print, signed ‘Di-Faced Notes.’ Banksy, print, signed ‘Di-Faced Notes’ (pink). Queens and Prime Ministers are also included as subjects in his work; Banksy, print, signed ‘Queen Vic’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Monkey Queen’. Banksy, print, signed ‘Turf War’.

In 2007, Transport for London painted over Banksy’s iconic image of a scene from Quentin Taratino’s Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L. Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead of guns. Although the image was very popular, Transport for London claimed that the ‘graffiti’ created a general atmosphere of neglect and social decay which in turn encourages crime”. Banksy, print, signed ‘pulp Fiction’

http://www.banksysignedprints.info/biography.php?cur=GBP

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Tue, 08 Nov 2011 20:04:00 +0000

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1 kill your tv - it trains ignorance - be social

2 obvious

3 Bush like a devil

4 set your self free from the capitalism

5 eat the rich

6 where are u ? i let it in your imagination

7 Capitalism = Cool ?

8 Wake up italy

9 cctv killing your personal lif

10 Reclaim public spaces - Clear enough

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1 obvious

2 obvious

3 photo from vietnam - go home Yankees ( Americans)

4 modern way of live invade to our homes

5 free

6 the passion of every people, money..

7 reclaim the streets

8 consume,be silent,die…

9 workers of the world unite against the capitalistic bosses

10 we should all organize against every threat coming from goverment/against capitalism

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