[nah]

The yoda one was available for a while, like a minute or two after release

[Con Art Studio]

[bullet]

can fail. absolut is vodka so why is it dribbling blue.

[Con Art Studio]

Jun 18, 2010 16:33:24 GMT 1 bullet said:

can fail. absolut is vodka so why is it dribbling blue.

i figured if MBW thinks flour is orange than i have artistic license to make vodka blue.... or am i not allowed to do that because i don't have enough bullshit hype to just randomly put shit on a can?

[Warm Gun]

Lol, he has a good point.

[Henry Gale Was Here]

[bullet]

the majority of artists are driven by the hype, so i dont get what the point is in these.

[Con Art Studio]

Jun 18, 2010 18:50:38 GMT 1 bullet said:

the majority of artists are driven by the hype, so i dont get what the point is in these.

SALES are driven by hype, not artists.



the point of these help demonstrate how much of a played out joke MBW's work is. what's next in line for MBW? maybe a "Che" print?

[snausages]

Jun 18, 2010 18:58:12 GMT 1 Con Art Studio said:

the point of these help demonstrate how much of a played out joke MBW's work is. what's next in line for MBW? maybe a "Che" print?

But I think the point of MBWs work is to demonstrate how played out pop and street art is.

[Henry Gale Was Here]

I like that thought, but I don't know if he thinks that much about what he puts out. It wasn't played out til he showed up

MBW is more like watching performance art

But if he really is trying to show how played out it is, kudos, that is brilliant.

[Con Art Studio]

Jun 18, 2010 19:19:27 GMT 1 @snausages said:

Jun 18, 2010 18:58:12 GMT 1 Con Art Studio said:

the point of these help demonstrate how much of a played out joke MBW's work is. what's next in line for MBW? maybe a "Che" print?

But I think the point of MBWs work is to demonstrate how played out pop and street art is.

isn't that banksy's job?

[Con Art Studio]

[Warm Gun]

I much prefer fribhey's efforts to mbw's.

[Cedric Mnich]

Jun 12, 2010 15:55:46 GMT 1 @thehighlife said:

it seems like every artist has done a soup can series. Shep, Banksy, Gagon, Warhol, Mnich and the list goes on. Who was the first? Warhol? I like that these are a small edition too.

Yeah, difference is that I sold only two or three prints of my Greed's soup cans (which are editions of 10). I don't think mine are worse than these though... Probably too much of an investment banker's joke LOL

[Con Art Studio]

combining two of MBW's loves. i'm actually surprised one of his employees didn't think of this first

[Daniel Silk]

www.flickr.com/photos/urbanartgallerynyc/4699175850/

[Con Art Studio]

MBW's 15 Minutes in a Can

“I never thought about pop art as a bad word until Mr. Brainwash,” says Fairey, who came up with the Marilyn-wig thing about a decade ago. “My thing was putting the Marilyn hair on Andre [the Giant], who’s not so handsome, and that’s sort of like me spoofing pop art but still paying tribute to it at the same time. But then Thierry, Mr. Brainwash, is putting that same Marilyn Monroe hair on everybody from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Michael Jackson to Larry King. I wish it were about him making a statement that art is ridiculous and that celebrities are interchangeable, but it’s not that at all. It’s like, ‘throw a bunch of sh*t against the wall and see what sticks."

quote from: www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/04/shepard-fairey-swears-to-god-the-banksy-movie-is-not-a-hoax.html

[Gentle Mental]

Very nice! fribhey! please make more! your BP is leagues ahead.

[chief]

Jun 12, 2010 21:38:21 GMT 1 Warm Gun said:

I voted that these were all s**te, they've actually grown on me after a second look. I quite like them.

You like them because the brands are familiar to you. The idea behind them and the execution is terrible. Why would you want some corporate art in your place anyway?

[amsterdam9697]

Jun 18, 2010 20:43:51 GMT 1 Warm Gun said:

I much prefer fribhey's efforts to mbw's.

Have to agree that his mock-ups put every recent MBW release to shame... it really is THAT EASY ;D

[bullet]

for those of you that like MBW...

urbanartassociation.com/index.cgi?board=artwork&action=display&thread=56207&page=1

[snausages]

[quote author=fribhey board=general thread=55693 post=671757 t“My thing was putting the Marilyn hair on Andre [the Giant], who’s not so handsome, and that’s sort of like me spoofing pop art but still paying tribute to it at the same time. But then Thierry, Mr. Brainwash, is putting that same Marilyn Monroe hair on everybody from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Michael Jackson to Larry King. I wish it were about him making a statement that art is ridiculous and that celebrities are interchangeable, but it’s not that at all. It’s like, ‘throw a bunch of sh*t against the wall and see what sticks."[/quote]

That's rich coming from Fairey who churns out so much art void of any intellectual depth. Does he really think putting a marilyn wig on an "ugly" guy is actually making a statement!?

MBW's art IS about art being ridiculous, it's success is in the absurdity of it and the beating of the dead horse is the joke of it. And in fact it is actually humorous that people as ridiculous as Spock and Larry King are getting the Marilyn Monroe treatment.

[popmozz]

good questions, who was first doing a spray can in (Warhol) Soup can image? Im sure Warhol never did a spray can himself.

[Karl Read]

Jun 22, 2010 8:20:08 GMT 1 popmozz said:

good questions, who was first doing a spray can in (Warhol) Soup can image? Im sure Warhol never did a spray can himself.

Rene

[popmozz]

Rene Gagnon I only know the edition of 2009.
When did he first? Nick Walker did it 2007.
Im sure there are some street artist doing that much earlier???

[Warm Gun]

Jun 21, 2010 23:39:46 GMT 1 chief said:

Jun 12, 2010 21:38:21 GMT 1 Warm Gun said:

I voted that these were all s**te, they've actually grown on me after a second look. I quite like them.

You like them because the brands are familiar to you. The idea behind them and the execution is terrible. Why would you want some corporate art in your place anyway?

Ooo, a forum member trying to psychoanalyze me from the content of a flippant post, excellent.

I wonder what I meant when I posted this.....''I much prefer fribhey's efforts to mbw's.''

Perhaps subconsciously it screams that I want to poke one up my own mother?

I wouldn't especially want that work on my wall as, like you said, the execution is poor. The brands are far from familiar to me. I'm English and I was only aware of two of them. I'm also a believer that most art (especially MBW and banksy's) is corporate so not sure what you're trying to say there.

[popmozz]

BP is great!!! Lets publish!!!

[Con Art Studio]

Jun 22, 2010 9:34:49 GMT 1 popmozz said:

Rene Gagnon I only know the edition of 2009.
When did he first? Nick Walker did it 2007.
Im sure there are some street artist doing that much earlier???

Rene Gagnon did it in 2006:
www.woostercollective.com/2006/03/masthead_by_rene_gagnon.html
renegagnonfineart.com/site/100.html
2007
renegagnonfineart.com/site/137.html
2008
renegagnonfineart.com/site/237.html
renegagnonfineart.com/site/232.html
renegagnonfineart.com/site/268.html
renegagnonfineart.com/prints/02_campbells.html

Tesco Soup 2008
renegagnonfineart.com/site/269.html

[adam]

Jun 18, 2010 20:24:35 GMT 1 Con Art Studio said:

that idea is way better than MBW's efforts sir

[Brushstrokes 75]

Warhol made a soup can (not spray) in 1962.

A year after, a small time time artist - Roy Lichtenstein - made a spray can (so in 1963) :