'Obey Icon' by Shepard Fairey, 1998
One of the rarest Fairey prints we've ever had the pleasure of offering!
38 x 25 Inches
96.5 x 63.5 Centimeters
Screen print on off-white, Speckletone fine art paper.
Limited Edition of only 100 (#78/100)
Signed, numbered and dated by Shepard Fairey (rare full signature).
*Note: Very good original condition, especially considering its age.
*Note: This is a consigned lot so we're limited on images. Expect some delay on shipping.

ABOUT THE ART

Fairey created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design. This later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, which has grown via an international network of collaborators replicating Fairey's original designs.

Fairey intended the Obey Giant to inspire curiosity and cause people to question their relationship with their surroundings. According to the Obey Giant website, "The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker". The website also says, by contrast, that those who are familiar with the sticker find humor and enjoyment from it and that those who try to analyze its meaning only burden themselves and may condemn the art as an act of vandalism from an evil, underground cult.

Originally intending the sticker campaign to gain fame among his classmates and college peers, Fairey says:

"At first I was only thinking about the response from my clique of art school and skateboard friends. The fact that a larger segment of the public would not only notice, but investigate, the unexplained appearance of the stickers was something I had not contemplated. When I started to see reactions and consider the sociological forces at work surrounding the use of public space and the insertion of a very eye-catching but ambiguous image, I began to think there was the potential to create a phenomenon"
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