Description

Untitled (Make Art not War) by Death NYC
Artist Proof, Silk-screen print, Signed and Certified

In this richly layered silkscreen, Death NYC hijacks the visual authority of propaganda art to stage a collision between innocence and ideology. At the center, Snoopy, the ever-silent icon of childhood ease, its in quiet reverie, his head tilted toward a background buzzing with clashing codes: Gucci monogram patterns and hand-drawn hearts, here possibly repurposed as cultural noise and as a tangible example of what art expression could be.

Encircled by Shepard Fairey’s signature florals and Soviet-style symmetry, Snoopy is recast not as a passive mascot but as a subversive emblem, an unwitting revolutionary surrounded by calls to “OBEY” and “MAKE ART – NOT WAR.” The phrase All Power to the People sits beneath like a footnote to remind us where the power really is.

What looks innocent at first glance is really a disguise, a soft cloaking strategy: the charm of cuteness doesn’t offer escape here, it conceals something deeper, something reflective and sharp.
Death NYC weaponizes nostalgia, using it as bait to draw the viewer into deeper reflections on obedience, consumerism, and aesthetic resistance. Snoopy doesn’t speak, but in this frame, his silence becomes a protest louder than slogans.