POPaganda: The Art and Subversion of Ron English

Ron English's billboards force the man on the street to look twice...or maybe three times.

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[Envee211]

Not to mention, he can't say whatever he wants even if he DOES rent the billboard. They'll deny him the privilege of putting his art on the billboard if it's controversial. By stealing the space he can say whatever he feels needs to be said.

[Michael McKenna]

You don't get the point. The average person can't possibly compete with the corporations for ad space. Corporations may be made up of "people," but only the elite in those corporations are in control. And their only motive is PROFIT. Not the good of the people, profit. That's the point. You may disagree and think that he should purchase the billboard space, but you can't pretend like corporations promote the interests of people just because they are made up of people.

[SugoiGiGi]

Ron sort of reminds me of a present-day Gandhi. He isn't using violence, but civil disobediance to get his point across. But, that's just my opinion, lol.

Cool stuff, man; can't wait to do a research paper on you.

[Pierre Langlois]

ROCK'N'ROLL MAC DONALDSSSS



[deadthings13]

AWESOME

[Jude Marks]

Ron English is a genius!!!

[CDspartan21]

barney vs godzilla

[misternylon]

Using Bill Gates for that Apple spoof was genius and he has a point about how the historical figures used in their ads may not have approved of their image being used at all, so why not just flip it and stick Charles Manson up there. I mean who's to say who the hell has the right? Fuck the arrogance of these big ad monsters.

Damn I passed him in the street the other day, should have given him some major respect but I flaked it.

[2weardgirls]

I really wish he would put some of these billboards up in my town

[mikeyhiz]

I loved his work until he made a deal with Viacom. bad move for a fake

[Rob Gonyon]

after all this shit he's against, why not take the kids out to have a fucking happy meal eh?

[MTheory77]

it's a double rainbow