ashes57 wrote:Sorry my internet dropped.
Shepard is not ripping off other artist works and hope that people won't notice. That would be very silly especially at his level. He use parts of images and to transcribe is own message. In this way it is not a plagotirism. Would you be one of those people who don't consider already made art an art.
It becomes so easy to criticize artists when they become famous, especially when you don't know they background and/or forget where they come from. Shepard said 10 years ago that is goal was to be every where is the world and HAVE $$$. Every corner you go in New york city you will find a Obey stickers/stencil/poster. You can find an obey sticker in pretty much all the major city in North America and the world. What are got to say about it.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashes_57/s ... 931182076/
well and my site has a special section
http://www.ashes57.com
i agree, and i also think that people traditionally like to tear down artists that hold their ground on a simple foundation and build it on towards an empire, that someone like sheppard has done. they make easy targets in graffitti culture especially because of the whole starving artist stigma. you know, stay underground, and stay starving and all that bullshit.
sorry but this is 2008, and the starving artist purist thing is from 50 years ago. it costs money to be creative, so if someone wants to make money , let them.
futura 2000 took huge amounts of flack for doing clothing and toys from all the graf purists that viewed it as selling out. it was the most ridiculous hypocritical bullshit i've read. money is not the problem, it's just people perceptions.
