Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Shepard Fairey's portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/

Fairey is famous for his campaign portrait of Obama -- for which the photographer, on whose photo his print is based, is suing him, but the photographer is expected to lose.

Since this is a real Shepard Fairey, it's the best of these 3-color portraits that people have been producing lately. None were "bad" artistically, but this is the best -- seems to radiate out powerfully and with hope.

That just shows how art work (e.g. painting) is "better" than photography, though photography itself is an art.

Kyi May Kaung

Richard the Lionheart

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I_of_England