When American art is not social, it is political. Americans are passionate about power, propaganda and democracy.
€26,158 Shepard Fairey (né en 1970), MLK - Martin Luther King, 2004, spray painted stencil and mixed media on paper, 112 x 76 cm. Paris, Drouot, 14 December 2014. Digard auction house.
€26,158 Shepard Fairey (né en 1970), MLK - Martin Luther King, 2004, spray painted stencil and mixed media on paper, 112 x 76 cm. Paris, Drouot, 14 December 2014. Digard auction house.
During the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt decided to help struggling artists by funding thousands of their works. Since then, they have given their work a political and social slant. Pop art is one of the aesthetics their contemporary descendants…
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