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In 2008, visual artist [[Shepard Fairey]] utilized [[Socialist]] and [[Communist]] propaganda poster aesthetics to create the infamous [[Barack Obama]] "HOPE" campaign poster. Fairey's work has long employed visual elements directly referencing [[fascist]] imagery, styling and color palettes. His representation of Obama bore striking resemblance to socialist realism and recalled posters used to promote [[Mao]], [[Stalin]] and [[Lenin]]. This iconographic image became synonymous with Obama's presidential campaign, despite claims by the [[Associated Press]] that Fairey had illegally stolen the original image from their photo archives. In a September 2008 article on [[San Francisco]]-based news website SF Gate, Fairey admitted freely that he employed propaganda techniques, saying, "The illustration does have roots in propaganda art... I also want it to seem like a patriotic image, but not be seen as too countercultural... It needed just enough mainstream ingredients to transcend."<ref>http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-09-18/entertainment/17159255_1_shepard-fairey-poster-street-artist</ref>
In 2008, visual artist [[Shepard Fairey]] utilized [[Socialist]] and [[Communist]] propaganda poster aesthetics to create the infamous [[Barack Obama]] "HOPE" campaign poster. Fairey's work has long employed visual elements directly referencing [[fascist]] imagery, styling and color palettes. His representation of Obama bore striking resemblance to socialist realism and recalled posters used to promote [[Mao]], [[Stalin]] and [[Lenin]]. This iconographic image became synonymous with Obama's presidential campaign, despite claims by the [[Associated Press]] that Fairey had illegally stolen the original image from their photo archives. In a September 2008 article on [[San Francisco]]-based news website SF Gate, Fairey admitted freely that he employed propaganda techniques, saying, "The illustration does have roots in propaganda art... I also want it to seem like a patriotic image, but not be seen as too countercultural... It needed just enough mainstream ingredients to transcend."<ref>http://articles.sfgate.com/2008-09-18/entertainment/17159255_1_shepard-fairey-poster-street-artist</ref>
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Aside from the propaganda elements, liberals, in particular Susan Sontag, also desecrated the concept of art during the 1960s, where they left beauty as the sole guiding principal of art, with "beauty" in this case being the pleasure one received from hearing or viewing a piece, derived from 19th century Aestheticism. There's also ample evidence that she overturned Matthew Arnold's culture-based viewing of art, sought to eliminate the notion of art being influenced by morality in favor of nihilism, and had caused the demise of New York's intellectual elite with her views.<ref>https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2013/11/29/sontags-kulture-kamp/</ref>
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