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DMB22JEEP

Nov 12, 2008, 09:42 PM

http://www.mrbrainwash.com/buy/a3.html

Gary!

Nov 13, 2008, 07:15 AM

Hmm...

I like some of his stuff. Not sure about that.

DMB22JEEP

Nov 13, 2008, 01:50 PM

There is so much hype and speculation around who this guy is that I think no matter what happens, or who it ends up being, that we looking at the next Banksy or Fairey in terms of prices. He is automatically connected to both of those artists for the rest of his career 1- because of style and 2- whoever is marketing him has him linked up with those two artists… everywhere you go they are speculating that its Banksy and Fairey teamed up or that its just one of them... when the truth comes out I will be interested to see what happens… but IMO I think this is the next hot artist… look at his street work – AWESOME! :thumbsup:thumbsup

DMB22JEEP

Nov 13, 2008, 01:59 PM

i think once the ordered obama prints start ariving at peoples homes the rest of his prints will sell out very quickly... I was just snooping around his web site... hes got some cool stuff! Im considering buying some other prints...

DMB22JEEP

Nov 13, 2008, 02:03 PM

you can still buy this print for $100 on the web site only 50 left

http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/82744

DMB22JEEP

Nov 13, 2008, 07:04 PM

Hello people!?!?

http://completed.shop.ebay.com/items/?_nkw=mr+brainwash&_in_kw=1&_ex_kw=&_sacat=See-All-Categories&_okw=mr+brainwash&_oexkw=&LH_Complete=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=200&_fpos=&_fsct=&LH_SALE_CURRENCY=0&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50

FonzFan

Nov 13, 2008, 07:14 PM

i dont think his art is very good, especially the obama stuff like the superman and the obama vs mccain. its just too rough like he took a small res jpeg of a frame and stuck it over a crappy superman body, and found some random obama head to complete everything. i dont know how people are eating this stuff up, im in beginning silk screen class at my school and make better prints than that

DMB22JEEP

Nov 13, 2008, 07:32 PM

its street art - usually made with spray paint... if you look at Shepard Fairies originals (or at least the version he shows in the gallery) they are made with spray paint.

Here you go - thank me later
http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/82744
BUY IT HERE - http://mrbrainwash.com/buy/b3.html

http://www.expressobeans.com/public/detail.php/82742
BUY IT HERE - http://mrbrainwash.com/buy/b11.html

FonzFan

Nov 13, 2008, 08:26 PM

no thanks.

TDunk

Nov 14, 2008, 01:25 AM

DMBfan

Nov 14, 2008, 09:41 AM

I think the website recently launched, all those sales were after his LA show if I am correct.

Gary!

Nov 14, 2008, 12:41 PM

I think that's correct.

Man it seems like people are scooping this stuff up like crazy to flip. I think it's going to take him saying he's Banksy to keep those kind of prices up.

EDIT: Actually I take that back. His stuff is cool. Guess we'll see.

DMB22JEEP

Nov 14, 2008, 02:11 PM

I always say "buy what you like because you might get stuck with it" - I like this... I like it a lot! I guess your the wrong crew for it then... I admit it is a big departure from the clean dmb prints, but I just can’t stop looking at it! Thought a few of you might have the same enthusiasm for it as me.

(weirdos)

DMB22JEEP

Nov 17, 2008, 06:45 PM

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1226467735229080.xml&coll=1

Man of a thousand portraits
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
BY DAN BISCHOFF
Star-Ledger Staff

It's happening all around the world, in all sorts of art media: People made deliriously happy by Barack Obama's election as president of the United States are making his portrait. Sometimes they use skills honed by years of art production and sometimes, like Richard Drey fuss making the Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," they do it just because they feel they must.

"I've broken up Barack Oba ma's face into 15 different colors a million times, but there's just something about his eyes that never changes," says Bernard Jackson, an artist and gallery owner who is mounting an exhibition of more than a score of his Obama portraits at Bernard Gallery 61 in South Orange through Nov. 30. "There's a kind of purity in those eyes, which don't see color, they see you. His eyes -- when I paint Obama, it's not like I'm looking at his eyes so much as I'm seeing through them, you know?"
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The vast majority of Jackson's paintings of Obama are based on the early Time magazine cover portrait, the close-up with the se rious, resolute gaze fixed on some distant point off to the right of the page. Around the world, people have based thousands upon thousands of homemade portraits on other news photos or campaign posters.

A French street artist who goes by the name of Mr. Brainwash has done Obama, fists on his hips, as Superman, standing in front of a waving American flag. (You can see that one on the streets of New York and Los Angeles as well as Paris.) A Kenyan artist painted a group portrait of George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W., and Queen Elizabeth II with Obama in the middle, looking like the lone smiling rai sin in a bowl of corn flakes. Ohio hobbyist Tim George, known as "Mr. Etch-A-Sketch," has included an Etch-A-Sketch Obama in his parade of 44 presidential portraits currently on display in the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.

The biggest Obama so far is by Cuban-American artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. Rodriguez- Gerada is making an Obama portrait out of 500 tons of sand, earth and gravel on the Barcelona, Spain, waterfront; it covers some two acres altogether, large enough, the artist hopes, to be seen from space (or at least on Google Earth).

Probably the most famous portrait of the president-elect is Shepard Fairey's already iconic campaign poster, done in red, white, blue and black and emblazoned with either the word "Hope" or "Progress."

Fairey, 38, is a graphic designer who emerged from the skateboarding scene to become one of the better-known street artists of our day. He created the poster with Upper Playground, a subculture store and graphic design firm based in San Francisco (they have a New York store, too) that was an early supporter of the Illinois senator's bid for the presidency.

At first, Fairey gave away the stencil print, or sold it for $45, with a percentage going to the campaign. But as it came to seem to be the official campaign poster, the price has risen. It's now going for $700 on eBay, and hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons sold one for charity last month for $60,000.

"I've never known artists to act like this," says Jersey City artist Ron English, who has done his own portrait of Obama in the guise of Abraham Lincoln (you can see billboard prints of his Obama/Lincoln on Coles Street and just outside the Canco lofts in Jersey City, as well as at English's website, popaganda.com). "Everywhere I go I see artists doing Barack, making glitter suits out of Obama portraits, doing paintings -- like everybody is doing it.

"I was in a show organized by Upper Playground in Denver dur ing the Democratic Convention, and they had over 200 artists there, all of them doing Barack."

English's Obama/Lincoln portrait wasn't Photoshopped or morphed, but hand-painted by the artist, working from photos. "I'm from Illinois myself, where they make a big deal out of that 'Land of Lincoln" stuff," English says. "So when (Upper Playground) called last spring and asked me to do a portrait really quickly, I noticed that Hillary was saying Obama was too inexperienced to be president. But I thought he had at least as much experience as Abe did, so I did Obama as Abe."

The likeness is subliminal, and demands a second take, which makes it perhaps the most intriguing of the many portraits of the president-elect out there. English is famous for his manipulations of commercial billboards to make political or social points, but when he took Obama/Abe on tour to Boston, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles and several other mostly Western cities culminating in Denver, he says he took care to make everything "legal," getting permission from each property owner before he put up the print.

"God, I hate working this way," English says with a grin, "but we didn't want to make anybody mad at the campaign. And most people were happy to say yes."

"Hope is a powerful thing," says Bernard Jackson, who lives in South Orange with his wife, Lynn, and their children, Clarke, 12, Austin, 10, and Indigo, 6. "It's not just about making a black man like me think I can make a difference. Right now, everybody walking around out there in this town is Barack Obama. All of us ... I just can't wait to meet the man."

Dan Bischoff may be reached at dbischoff@starledger.com.

DMB22JEEP

Nov 12, 2009, 11:29 AM