This via the Art Collectors blog:
"Someone stationed in Iraq has been leaving these around." - theartcollectors.com
This begs the question whether the U.S. will ever truly be out of Iraq. Since the Obama/Hope portrait, Shepard Fairey has become something of a national hero (in general, if not to the Boston Police Department). It has been interesting to watch the shift from vandal upstart to mainstream Pop Art (or even propaganda?) that Fairey has experienced. He is a new symbol of recognizable political art coming out of America. Thus, does the Obey stencil’s presence in Iraq represent just another cog in the machine of American imperialism?
If anything, it’s positive to have a recognizable, populist, open source symbol of contemporary art coming out of the United States.
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