Then he goes after people who appropriate his work for copyright violations.
Not to mention he appropriates the work of left-wing artists little-known in the US, brands it with his stupid logos & copyright and styles himself a rebel against the machine while making big bank.
Big fat fraud.
Still from director Michael Anderson’s 1956 film adaptation of George Orwell’s cautionary story of a dystopic future, 1984. Right: Fairey unmistakably stole his image from the "Big Brother is Watching You" propaganda posters used in Anderson’s film, without crediting the source.
Ver Sacrum - Koloman Moser 1901. Front cover illustration for the Vienna Secession magazine, Ver Sacrum
Fairey's ripped-off poster version of Moser’s art
Left: Fairey’s plagiarized poster. Right: Original street poster from Czechoslovakia’s, Prague Spring - Artist unknown 1968. The poster depicts a Soviet Red Army soldier in 1945 as a liberator, then as an oppressor in 1968.
One Big Union - Ralph "Bingo" Chaplin. 1917. Artwork created for the Industrial Workers of the World.
T-shirt created by Fairey for his OBEY clothing line. Neither Chaplin nor the IWW are given any credit by Fairey.
Untitled Silk-screen poster - Rene Mederos, Cuba, 1972. This double portrait by one of Cuba’s most famous poster artists depicts the revolutionaries Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos.
Screenshot taken from the "Bombing Science" website 7/18/2007, where the Fairey rip-off of Mederos’ poster was being sold as a T-shirt. Fairey printed the graphic without permission from the Mederos estate.
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
It's completely laughable to compare Fairey to Ansel Adams.
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