{"id":916,"date":"2017-05-01T06:30:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T06:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/?p=916"},"modified":"2017-04-17T15:41:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:41:10","slug":"wow-work-of-the-week-shepard-fairey-ramone-canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wow\/wow-work-of-the-week-shepard-fairey-ramone-canvas","title":{"rendered":"WOW – Work Of the Week – Shepard Fairey “Ramone Canvas”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n
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Shepard Fairey<\/b><\/span>
\nRamone Canvas<\/i><\/span>
\n2002<\/span>
\nScreenprint on canvas<\/span>
\n24 x 18 in.
\nArtist’s Proof (A.P.)<\/span>
\nPencil signed\u00a0and numbered<\/span><\/p>\n

About This\u00a0Work:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMost of my heroes don\u2019t appear on stamps or in art galleries. \u00a0<\/i>No matter how much I love art, or try to convince myself of its relevance in society the fact remains that music is a lot cooler and way more able to reach people\u2019s hearts and minds\u201d <\/i>\u00a0– Shepard Fairey<\/p>\n

Music has always had a huge influence on pop culture.\u00a0Every generation had a defining genre of music.\u00a0 Music, like art speaks volumes about the times in which we live in.\u00a0Just as art, music is constantly changing.\u00a0 Shepard Fairey\u2019s brand of art is Street Art.\u00a0Real street art touches upon the pulse of the everyday person, whose perception of what art is about is not in a museum, but rather on the street.\u00a0Music touches the everyday person, much like the street art of Shepard Fairey and his contemporaries.<\/p>\n

Society emulates musicians, society hums their music, society sings their lyrics.\u00a0Fairey\u2019s art is an extension of what music does to society.\u00a0His work talks about the social, environmental, political, and every day issues that concern the everyday person.<\/p>\n

His work became more widely known in the 2008 U.S. presidential election, specifically his Barack Obama “Hope” poster. The New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl called the poster “the most efficacious American political illustration since ‘Uncle Sam Wants You<\/i>‘”.<\/p>\n

This week’s Work Of the Week (WOW) is a very rare silkscreen on canvas of one of Shepard Fairey\u2019s favorite Punk Rock icons, Joey Ramone.\u00a0The Ramone Canvas as it has come to be known, was done in 2002.\u00a0There are only 2 of these pieces ever made, plus 1 AP (artist\u2019s proof) and 1 PP (printer\u2019s proof).<\/p>\n

Needless to say, this work is extremely rare.<\/p>\n

In 2002 –\u00a02003 Fairey produced a Punk Pioneers <\/em>suite.\u00a0The first piece of this series was Joey Ramone, lead singer of the Ramones.\u00a0Despite others that had come before him setting the stage for the punk rock genre, such as Iggy Pop or the Stooges, the Ramones, according to Fairey \u201creally set the wheels in motion<\/em>\u201d in the realm of punk music.<\/p>\n

The other icons in Punk Pioneers<\/em> suite are Johnny Rotten, Joe Strummer, Glenn Danzig, Henry Rollins, and Ian MacKaye.\u00a0However, the only work on canvas was of Joey Ramone.\u00a0All the other icons were silkscreen on paper and in an edition of 300.<\/p>\n

The whereabouts of the 2 editioned Ramone Canvas\u00a0are unknown.\u00a0The printer\u2019s proof has been found, and archived, but has a tear to the canvas.\u00a0Thus, leaving the Artist\u2019s Proof left, which belongs to Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art, the only known work in mint condition.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shepard Fairey Ramone Canvas 2002 Screenprint on canvas 24 x 18 in. Artist’s Proof (A.P.) Pencil signed\u00a0and numbered About This\u00a0Work: \u201cMost of my heroes don\u2019t appear on stamps or in art galleries. \u00a0No matter how much I love art, or … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[291,236,531,16,79,14,234,84,25,21,248,8,83,9,532,15,102,232,537,23,29,534,536,535,28,12,533,13,85,88,69,222,17,89],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":918,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions\/918"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsfineart.com\/gallery-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}