It is quite the irony that on that day that Kamala Harris leaked out some of the details of her communist-leaning economic policies Shephard Fairey unveiled his new version of the Obama “Hope” poster, this time for Kamala Harris.
Fairey’s work has it roots in socialist realism, a form of art that developed during the Stalinist era of communism, and when he brought his work to Russia in 2018 the profile the Moscow Times did of him leaned very heavily on the communist influence on his work.
On the cusp of WWII and in the face of fascist and communist threats, George Orwell wrote, “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
Although 2018 is not 1939, the American street artist, Shepard Fairey, sees rising inequality, corporate greed, environmental degradation, digital disinformation, and resurgent nationalism as…
