Shepard Fairey Chinese Stencil The Medium Is The Message Signed AP Obey 2000
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About This Piece
Gauntlet Gallery · Authenticated Street & Pop Art
Shepard Fairey — “Chinese Stencil (The Medium Is The Message)” · 2000
Artist's Proof (AP)
The Work
Chinese Stencil belongs to the early, raw phase of Fairey's studio work, when he was pushing the Obey Giant project into overtly propagandistic territory. The piece borrows the visual grammar of Chinese Cultural Revolution posters, the bold reds, the massed figures, the commanding graphic authority, and turns that language back on itself. Fairey's long-running strategy is to appropriate the tools of propaganda in order to expose how images command obedience.
The subtitle, The Medium Is The Message, quotes Marshall McLuhan and makes the critique explicit: the point is not what a poster says but how its very form conditions the viewer to submit. By staging that idea inside a stencil aesthetic, Fairey collapses the street-art method and the theoretical argument into one object, an artwork that is both a piece of propaganda and a commentary on how propaganda works.
Hand-signed in pencil by Shepard Fairey; this is an Artist's Proof (AP).
Details at a Glance
| Artist | Shepard Fairey |
|---|---|
| Title | Chinese Stencil (The Medium Is The Message) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Medium | Screen print on cream Speckletone paper |
| Edition | Artist's Proof (AP) |
| Size | — |
| Subject | Propaganda / media critique |
| Signature | Hand-signed in pencil by Shepard Fairey; Artist's Proof (AP) |
| Condition | Very Good |
Condition
Graded Very Good. Please review every photo closely — the images are part of the description and show the actual piece you will receive.
Authenticity & Provenance
Hand-signed in pencil by Shepard Fairey; Artist's Proof (AP). This is an authentic Shepard Fairey / OBEY Giant limited-edition print.
This release is documented in the Gauntlet Gallery Shepard Fairey reference archive at fairey.gauntlet.gallery.
Sold by Gauntlet Gallery, a specialist dealer in authenticated street art and pop art. Questions are welcome before purchase.
Shipping & Handling
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