Artwork Description
Shepard Fairey – Guns and Roses
Dimensions: 25.25 x 19.25″ framed / 24 x 18″ unframed
Year: 2024
Medium: stencil, silkscreen, and collage on paper
“Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent” exhibition co-curator Pedro Alonzo writes of this image: “Inspired by a Chinese propaganda poster created during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) in the People’s Republic of China, Fairey transforms the work’s revolutionary motif into a new contemporary anti-war message. The poster was a call-to-action for the formation of a Communist army, believing that military might was necessary to gaining political advantage.”
His works are in the permanent collections of the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and many others. Shepard Fairey has painted more than 140 largescale murals across six continents worldwide.