Obama’s On-the-Wall Endorsement
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All political art is propaganda that is the point, but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic — aspirational, inspirational — and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster with all that implies. More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.
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May 24th, 2008 at 12:04
I am evil, I know, but the first one reminds me of the old, communist posters, Stalin, Lenin, the Power of the Working Class, and so on. The exact same style. And the same “Progress” “Freedom” and such words, empty of meaning from politicians by now.
The second one is similar to the style used in the 80s for the socialist “we will all be equal and friends, under the perfect socialism” style posters.
Somehow, I can’t see the inspirational, iconic part of these.
May 24th, 2008 at 12:06
In that case, we’re evil in the same way…
May 24th, 2008 at 12:13
Sorry, I see the iconic. The originiality is missing though. And well, the old ones were inspirational too.
May 24th, 2008 at 12:14
I just don’t think Obama wants to have early 80s communist posters. They are not cool, unless you are into retro
May 24th, 2008 at 12:16
Most of his voters won’t recognize then as early 80 communist posters…
May 24th, 2008 at 14:08
Probably. They still don’t look “cool”. They look like corp brochures.
May 24th, 2008 at 15:55
Have you seen Hillary’s poster?
May 24th, 2008 at 20:07
Not too good either. But, whenever I told my father that “John got an E too!” his answer was “Don’t really care about John”.
But that poster simply looks bad. Even if I know that orange is supposed to convey creativity, the stripes make her appear in a narrow corridor. A bad movie poster.