History of Stickers : When Stickers Became an Art
It's hard to believe that a simple piece of paper or vinyl sticker back is capable of so much! Shepard Fairey also had a hard time believing it, yet this artist was probably the first to turn a simple sticker into a work of art . This is certainly what he says in the introduction to his essay written in 2003 , in which he recounts his fascination with stickers as a form of expression . We are in the 80s , when the stickers begin to become popular among skaters and American punks . The latter seem obsessed with these adhesive images (logos, tags and illustrations) that they stick on their tables and their clothing, and which can be reproduced and distributed by the thousands. Today, there is a well-known term for naming them: viral images . It is therefore among the "skaters" that was born the first viral image in sticker format representing a French wrestler accompanied by an enigmatic sentence . In the space of a few years, hundreds of "André th