Street Art: Shepard Fairey's Andre The Giant

Street art is about breaking barriers, challenging authority, and making one’s mark in society. It is a freeing form of art, done in secret and without monetary gain. Public acclaim is a huge factor in street art, as noted by the overwhelming popularity of Shepard Fairey’s work of Andre the Giant. The concerns of an artist may not originally revolve around how the public receives the art, but over time it gradually becomes one of the major factors in art.
Secrecy and anonymity were some of Banksy’s higher virtues, and even his assistants noted how bizarre it was that he was being filmed. As Banksy himself notes, part of the reason he allows himself to be filmed is because he had spent so long being ultra-secretive, and found it to be rather

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