Obama “Hope” Poster Artist Beaten by Fellow Radical Leftists…
How do you like your “Hope and Change,” Shep?
(The Atlantic Wire) — Shepard Fairey’s latest work has not been well received in Denmark.
Last weekend, a group of angry thugs called Fairey “Obama illuminati” and then proceeded to beat up him and a friend after the opening of his exhibition in Copenhagen, leaving the world famous graffiti artist with a black eye and a bruised rib.
Fairey refused to report the assault to the police — “The only thing I could see coming out of it was further media commentary like ‘street artist whiner Shepard Fairey can’t hold it down in a fight so he snitches to the cops,” Fairey said — so the incident wasn’t reported until Friday when The Guardian got the scoop.
On the surface, it seems like Fairey got caught in the middle of a local controversy between leftwingers and the city government.
But given the fact that the artist struggled to make amends with both sides, the attack seems to have been borne of Danish leftist radical distaste of both Obama and hipsters.
If you were to draw a Venn diagram, Fairey would fit neatly in the middle. The Guardian explains:
The LA-based artist believes the attack was sparked by a misunderstanding over his mural commemorating the demolition of the legendary “Ungdomshuset” (youth house) at Jagtvej 69.
The building, a long-term base for Copenhagen’s leftwing community, was controversially demolished in 2007.
In the intervening years it has become a potent symbol of the standoff between the establishment in Copenhagen and its radical fringe. . . .
Within a day of completion, the mural was vandalized by protesters, with graffiti sending messages of ‘no peace’ and ‘go home, Yankee hipster’.
Fairey subsequently collaborated with former members of the 69 youth house to redecorate the lower half of the installation.
His new version contains images of riot police and explosions, together with a new, more combative slogan: “Nothing forgotten, nothing forgiven”.
In the eyes of the leftwing community, the local city council made Fairey their pawn in order to send an insult to the activists whose base they destroyed four years ago.
The local Danish press reports that the council paid Fairey nearly $50,000 for the mural, the first of four planned around Copenhagen, but Fairey denies that his commission came from the city.
Fairey had full creative freedom for the works, according to Henrik Chulu with the art blog Frikultur who says the murals are “part of a strategy to brand Copenhagen as progressive and ‘cool’.”
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Karma – it’s a bitch…
That’s a shame….
While I don’t condone such brutality against anyone; it is a powerful statement of the things that are happening and coming to our towns, next.
Really, what the fuck is the story here? All I got was. “Fairey got beat up. Local politics to blame. He re-paints mural to celebrate beatdowners.”
Who paid him for what? Why pay him to just paint…anything he wants? There is no freaking background or detail to understand what happened….other than Shepard got beat up. Not sayin’ it’s not a feel good story, but I’d like to read a better report.
Whats funny about Shep, is that he is suing other artist for copying his style of art, which he clearly stole from early communist propaganda! Total douche bag in my book!
Ahhhhhh…..I love the smell of socialist fratricide in the morning…..it smells like….victory.
The irony…it burns!
Fairey from L.A. How unusual .
Instead of eatin’ their own…their beatin’ their own.
Ya gotta love it!
Fad – not art.
“….the council paid Fairey nearly $50,000 for the mural….”
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Making him suddenly an “evil rich guy”, and thus, fair game.
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Thugs who beat people dserve to have their hands amputated right at the wrist and thats both hands
“progressive and cool” and yet soooo very stupid…….I guess they go hand in hand.
The perpetually angry Left…..morally bankrupt and proud of it.
Hey Shep, the 70′s called and said keep the “London Calling” t-shirt.
I’m glad . This “artist” is an admitted communist. He deserves to get his butt kicked for being a communist for one, and secondly, part of b.s. propaganda that tricked so many Americans for voting for this American hating President.
Wow, really tough art critics in Denmark! I had no idea.
artist?
Oh, I see…. we all win….
Left on left beat down. I like the sound of that.
Now he’ll be doing iconic pictures of Romney, Perry or Palin. You know what they say about a liberal who gets mugged. In his case he’ll probably have to be mugged again and again.
Next years Obama poster will be: “Hopin’ for some spare Change.”
Where’d the little plagiarizer copy the mural from?
Choke on the hopey changey pinko fag.
So, Fairey co-opted some Copenhagen protest politics to garner publicity for his commie housewares and clothing line.
Shepard will cash in on the controversy by including the image in his Fall collection.
Shepard’s OBAY company motto:
Manufacturing Quality Dissent Since 1989
You only learn vital stuff like this when you have 20-something kids.
Fairey artist? Say it so.
Should have just stuck with being a relative unknown with an interesting Tag saves one a lot of trouble you nutter.
Exactly what is meant by “hipster”? In the U.S.A, I would think that 99% of hipsters would be Leftists. The ‘Yankee’ part of “Yankee hipster” is clear. I suppose that the radical fringe in Copenhagen don’t like hippies? Or is “hipster” not connected to “hippie”?; or are all “hipsters” associated with “Yankees”?
I may lose sleep over this….
‘no peace’ and ‘go home, Yankee hipster’….” Hipster???
LOL Dude isnt leave behind the dope, he could probably care less about the politics of this little shithole…I understand from a friend that indulges that good heroin is really hard to find in LA! So…for a busted eye and poo-poo rib, a lil bit of dope goes a long way…and if thats “art”…well…I have a couple rolls of it in my bathroom, right next to my rolls of the koran!
Ideology of Peace…
Damn, thats some serious Karma coming back at him.. Now for obama’s…
Lots of stories about the Left turning on itself lately. Now THAT is progressive and cool!
lol at people thinking the following words actually hurt the feelings of white Americans.
Yankee
honky
gringo
cracker
redneck
Typical liberal: Less concerned about actual justice than his own appearance. Sure, somewhere someone would probably call him a “whiner” for reporting to police, but the fact is that HE decided it wasn’t worth it to “do the right thing” & report a crime (an assault!), b/c he MIGHT be chided by his critics.
Gallery art is usually framed and the picture framing glass should be of a non-reflective museum quality grade. But not hipster Shepard Fairey, he uses cheapo mall art glass.
See the reflection of the photographer captured in the image?
Fairey the hack plagiarizer has no idea how to properly package art for a gallery exhibit.
The ironies within this story are just too much to comprehend in a single reading.
I may link it to my son-in-law, who also despises hipsters.
@ 13times
LOL. You’re right, the Lefties don’t realize that because of the partisan and racist climate THEY have created, many people now proudly claim these titles.
A while back I inconvenienced some guy in an old car at a stop light, waiting to turn left. When he finally went by he yelled “Rich Asshole!” First time I was ever insulted and wished it was true.
13times: “Gallery art is usually framed and the picture framing glass should be of a non-reflective museum quality grade. But not hipster Shepard Fairey, he uses cheapo mall art glass.
“See the reflection of the photographer captured in the image? Fairey the hack plagiarizer has no idea how to properly package art for a gallery exhibit.”
No no no, you just don’t understand. See, much more expensive, non-reflective glass would be used by bourgeois, mainstream, boring, un-hip people packaging corporate propaganda as art (i.e. not genuine “artists”).
This genuine artist–a hip revolutionary with a truly innovative style unlike anything ever seen before–deliberately uses ordinary reflective glass to satirize the hollowness of corporate-shill faux-art. Got it?
Irony, the game anyone can play!
Didn’t know the SEIU had a branch office in Denmark!
“Fairey refused to report the assault to the police”
I wonder if Muslims were involved.
1) Muslims are fair game for any mob beatdown on a solitary victim.
2) Muslims aren’t too fond of Obama after he ordered the killing of their hero.
3) Leftists will go far out of their way to defend Muslims at any price.
The one thing arguing against Muslim attackers is that Fairey wasn’t hurt bad enough.
Another democrate mugged by reality and on his way to becoming a republican.
I dig art, even crappy art. In fact, my house is full of thrift store junk art, poorly executed wood block cuttings and prints, odd rubber stamp images… the list is endless.
Interesting exposé on all the art filched by this scuzzy hack.
k___bee
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
Well now, we have a second “Shepard.” Smith and this clown. Both are insufferable assh*les. Who in the Hell names their kid “Shephard?”
BRAVO,BRAVO to the good people of Denmark, I wish you well and good fortune to your beautifal country and a very warm THANK YOU from all of America
just shows that Radical leftists have no problem beating up one of their own up if it makes them feel better
S.E.I.U the Purple People Beaters beating up another leftist clown funny stuff
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