I like the artworks, I especially found the one to our left in this photo very compelling. So.... intense!!
Thank you, Mikaela! Yes,
Mr. Fairey is something else! I think he's created a full-blown polemical iconography, the best since Irish artist
Jim Fitzpatrick's stylized poster (1967) based on
'Guerrillero Heroico' (1960), Cuban
Alberto Korda's famous photograph of
Che Guevara.
(And I meant this in the best way imaginable, of course!
)
Strange footnote!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_(photo)Meeting Che in IrelandAccording to Fitzpatrick, in 1962 while a teenage student at Gormanston College he worked a summer job at the Marine Hotel pub in Kilkee, the remote town of his mother's birth. One day Che Guevara walked in with two Cubans and ordered an Irish Whiskey. Fitzpatrick immediately recognized him because of his interest in the Cuban revolution. Knowing about the Irish diaspora and history in Argentina, Fitzpatrick asked Che vaguely about his roots. Che told Fitzpatrick that his grandmother was Irish and that his great-grandmother
Isabel, was from Galway, with other family being from Cork. Guevara's father also bore the Irish surname "Lynch." Fitzpatrick describes Che as "curious" about Ireland "from a revolutionary point of view" and remarks that Che proclaimed his "great admiration" for the fact that in his view, Ireland was the first country to "shake off the shackles of the British Empire". Apparently Che was stranded on an overnight flight from Moscow to Cuba, and had touched down at Shannon airport, where the Soviet airline Aeroflot, had a refueling base. Unable to depart because of thick fog, Che and his accompanying Cubans took the day off for an "unofficial" visit. It was this experience according to Fitzpatrick, that gave him the impetus to follow the future actions of Che, including his ill-fated mission to Bolivia.
