Sabo (artist)

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Sabo (* 1968 ) is a street artist from Los Angeles .

education

He graduated from the United States Marine Corps and studied at the Art Center College of Design .

Artistic activity

Sabo focuses on art with a political message. He represents right-wing political positions. He started with street art in the 1990s. However, he only gained greater fame with a photo montage that he published in 2014. She portrayed Ted Cruz as a muscular and tattooed man. The politician shared the picture on Twitter , but later distanced himself from this work because Sabo was accused of racism .

During the Republican Party's campaign , he published art directed against Donald Trump and his constituents. For example an image montage in which the future president is shown as Benito Mussolini . However, he is now considered a Trump supporter.

In Los Angeles he published a series of posters entitled Republicans are the new punk. He sells T-shirts and other items with his pictures both on the Internet and at Republican Party events.

Political position

In an interview he testified that he considered a leftist political stance to be a mental disorder. He also believes that Barack Obama is a Muslim and that Hillary Clinton is a satanist.

He is interviewed in the ARTE documentary Propaganda - How to Sell Lies .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hillary Clinton Flying Monkey Signs Deface Brentwood Ahead of LA Fundraiser. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c 'I think leftism is a disorder': is this artist the rightwing Banksy? In: The Guardian. June 21, 2017, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  3. ^ Katherine Brooks: Meet Sabo, The Conservative Street Artist Behind The Wendy Davis 'Barbie Art'. June 10, 2014, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Ted Cruz: Saw this, but noticed an error. So I wanted to make one thing clear: I don't smoke cigarettes. In: Twitter. March 15, 2014, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Deena Zaru CNN: Sabo's journey from #NeverTrump, to the Trump Train. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/075835-000-A/propaganda-wie-man-luegen-verkauf
personal data
SURNAME Sabo (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American street artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1968