Large wheat-paste street art by artist Shepard Fairey (Obey / Swindle / Giant Has a Posse) on Broome Street, between Elizabeth and Bowery streets, in the Lower East Side / Chinatown / Nolita area of downtown New York City. The woman in the image is Burmese politician and democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, who was elected prime minister of Burma (Myanmar) in 1990. Shortly after the election, Kyi was prevented from taking office by the military junta that rules the country, and she has been formerly under government detention, mainly in the form of house arrest, for the past 14 years.
The art work appears to have been put up in two wheat-pasted strips that are slightly misaligned.(A sign, perhaps, of the work being put up in haste and the darkness of night so as to avoid detection by NYC police, we presume?) The work is a timely political statement in the wake of Kyi’s recent trial in Rangoon.
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New York City street art: Love seeing this pair of congratulatory, pre-inauguration Barack Obama “We Made History” wheat-paste posters on Orchard Street, between Delancey and Rivington streets in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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New York City street art: Detail of Barack Obama’s face from “We Made History” wheat-paste poster on Orchard Street in the Lower East Side.
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New York City street art: Detail from pre-inauguration Barack Obama “We Made History” wheat-paste posters on Orchard Street, Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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New York City street art: Pre-inauguration Barack Obama “We Made History” wheat-paste posters on Orchard Street, between Delancey and Rivington streets in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Yes we can? Yes we did!
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Street artist and graphic designer Shepard Fairey takes his Obama poster design to the mainstream media. The Los Angeles-based Fairey created the cover artwork for Time magazine’s Man of the Year issue, which awards U.S. President-Elect Barack Obama with the title. During the recent election, Fairey designed a series of pro-Obama street-art posters. The presence of these as wheat-paste street art in American cities amounted to a guerrilla marketing campaign for the Democratic Party candidate. The poster design incorporated Obama’s image shaded with the symbolic colors of red and blue. The word “Hope,” an important theme of the Obama campaign, ran across the top of the poster. The Time cover is a version of this design concept.
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New York street art: Former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin cast as the devil.
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New York street art: Former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin cast as the devil is destined to be a graphic design classic.
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New York street art: Former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin cast as the devil.
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New York street art: This Nolita street-art wheatpaste image (a la Shepard Fairey’s Obama “Hope” posters) of former U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin cast as a devil is destined to be a graphic design classic. The design is by Frightening Prospect
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New York street art: Detail from wheatpaste artwork of a dancing John McCain by street artist Billi Kid.
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New York street art: Street artist Billi Kid’s wheatpaste artwork of U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain dancing on the south side of Houston Street, between The Bowery and Elizabeth Street.
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New York street art: Street artist Billi Kid breaks away from the usual celebrity-in-a-pink-convertible theme and goes full-body political with this wheatpaste artwork of U.S. Senator and former presidential candidate John McCain dancing. We presume that McCain’s head was Photoshoped onto someone else’s body. The artwork can be found on the south side of Houston Street, between The Bowery and Elizabeth Street.
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New York City street art: Barack Obama as Superman.
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New York City street art: Senator Barack Obama as Superman.
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New York City street art: Paste-ups of Senator Barack Obama as Superman. Awesome.
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New York City street art: Wheatpaste images of Presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Barack Obama as Superman. What a great visual metaphor. Brilliant. No more words needed.
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