Shepard Fairey, the artist who developed that now famous Barack Obama campaign poster, has released his Immigrant Rights poster for the movement. Click on the pic for the whole poster, which says a lot more. (Thanks to Latino Pundit for putting this up.).
I like the attempt, but I’d like to see some more original art from Chicano political artists. We have a rich history of Chicano political art that most of the time goes unseen in the “mainstream” art community because, well, it’s Chicano. Here’s one example from Cheech Marin’s Chicano Visions exhibit:
Although Fairey’s shows the human face of the issue, we must still remember that there are still battles to be fought.
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