The video is an explanation of Shepard Fairly art work. it is a documentary about his art work that he took from the street and brought it to an art show gallery.
After making posters and putting them on the streets that different galleries started to reach out to him to publish his work.
Shepard Fairly is an artist, he is a street artist. his work is directed towards political and social agenda. he is socially involved. he connected art with culture that excite him. He is a visual communicator. went from doing illegal art to legal work when he started to have art show.
The different protagonists are:
- Ron English: artist
- Matt Gleason: publisher, coagula art journal.
- io: editor, overspray
- Ron dominguez:: art collector
-nyc lase: artist
-Shepard: artist
-emma gray: art editor/writer
-bert green: gallery owner
- jonathan levine: gallery owner
-suzanne muchnic: writer LA times.
most of them think that Shepard is a great artist with contemporary thought. they think he mixes beauty and ugliness that create a real art work. other like matt gleason think it is not art since it does not help you to think and sees his work as being a corporate work.
They think he is mixing reality of social life and politics. it is fine art to help us think and to open our mind.
