What art does Shepard Fairey use?
Herein, what type of art does Shepard Fairey do?
Street art
Keeping this in consideration, how does Shepard Fairey make his art?
Fairey uses simplified images, most often reproducing directly from a photographic source. Fairey makes use of mixed-media, combining materials more commonly associated with 'graffiti' art (spray paints, cut-out templates). Fairey builds up layers within much of his work, using paper, glues, spray-paints.
Shepard had launched an entire campaign around this image of the old wrestler. In many ways Shepard Fairey is a great community organizer, just like Barack Obama. Long before his Obama poster came to light he had been engaged in the activity of social organizing around something. Shepard just wanted to help Obama.