Monday, November 5, 2012

Don't you remember? - Variations on a theme



A little bit of the History behind the British celebrations of the Fifth of November.




The more recent pop culture references (from the Time Warner movie, V for Vendetta):





Which has lead to the mask being the symbol of the hacker group Anonymous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_%28group%29) and also with the occupy wall street protests (http://occupywallst.org/).





http://www.thestreetartblog.net/2011/11/shepard-fairey-supports-occupy-wall.html

And I will finish this very long post with a link to a brief article concerning the art side of the mask...


http://www.creepmachine.com/artist-news/art-and-the-occupy-movement.html

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