Shepard Fairey

 

Shepard Fairey is an Artist, street artist, graphic designer and illustrator and lives and works in the USA. He was born on February 15th 1970 and is known for his "Andre the Giant" sticker campaign in the 1990s where he emerged form the skateboarding scene and became an artist and political artist. Now he is most commonly known for a piece he created during the 2008 US election of Barack Obama called "HOPE", he created this piece by just using three different colours: red, blue and cream. He used these colours to create Obama because he believed that they sent the message of Patrionism to the public. He didn't want Obama to look like a black man but to make him a man to nationalise hence the colours.

 

In the past he has created rebellious pieces and with his second child on the way at the time he had the thought that he wanted the best future he could possibly get for his children so therefore he created a piece with Obama on for his political status and to advertise him and his party to win the election which he di, Fairey just wanted what's best for his children as they are the future of America.