Jim Fitzpatrick | Che Guevara

Jim Fitzpatrick’s art has always been controversial in some way or another. He is known as a Celtic Artist. However, Fitzpatrick is very well known for the poster of the terrorist Che Guevara of May 1968 which was published just after his death. It became an iconic image of the anti-Vietnam war protests worldwide and today it is also a symbol of F.A.R.C in Columbia in their fight for freedom.

The Che Guevara poster became worldwide and caused outrage wherever it appeared. Fitzpatrick wanted Guevara to never be forgotten. Therefore he made his poster free of copyright. 

The original poster was an oil painting which was then printed out. Since the poster that Jim Fitzpatrick created was to idolise Guevara, every shop that stocked the poster was threatened or harassed.

As you can see in the images below the poster of Che Guevara was translated to different art movements such as Pop Art. In this example you can see that whoever experimented with this poster was inspired from Any Warhol’s art.

 Today, we can see that even other artists are looking at Jim Fitzpatrick's work for inspiration when creating other posters.

References:

Jim Fitzpatrick, 2014. Che | Jim Fitzpatrick. [online] Available at : <http://www.jimfitzpatrick.com/che/> [Accessed 22 February, 2014].