I'm still in shock....
......at this amazing painting that Ron English sent over from America to Elms Lesters yesterday!
English is a modern pop-artist. He came to fame through pirating existing billboards, creating public artworks that inspired Shepard Fairey - one of our favourites, see previous Obey posts - amongst others. If you want to find out more go to his website here.
What's really fascinating is he uses his son and daughter as the subjects in his paintings.....
"People sometimes comment on the fact that I don't carry pictures of my kids in my wallet. I don't have to. Everywhere I go, there they are. On gallery walls in London or Japan, on billboards in Spain or New York, on movie screens in Indiana, Ohio or wherever I happen to be traveling. Since birth, they have been the subject of my art, be it paintings, billboards or whatever form my art takes at any given moment. Their participation involved weekly photo shoots that provided me with the raw material for the next week's work. Most recently, I have collected selected paintings of my kids, created over the last 10 years for a new book from 9mm Press titled Son of Pop. It's sort of an oddball family album. My children, Zephyr, 11 and Mars, 8, have been very patient with their artistic dad over the years. While I found posing for relatives' snapshots in my own childhood annoying and pointless, I can only imagine how my kids have felt, having had to dress up as Shriners, clowns or Kiss Kids for their whole lives. I always assumed they were having as much fun as me. It never occurred to me to ask them what they thought. "
...and now here he's done a painting of our kids! I'm speechless!!!!
Madame xx
English is a modern pop-artist. He came to fame through pirating existing billboards, creating public artworks that inspired Shepard Fairey - one of our favourites, see previous Obey posts - amongst others. If you want to find out more go to his website here.
What's really fascinating is he uses his son and daughter as the subjects in his paintings.....
"People sometimes comment on the fact that I don't carry pictures of my kids in my wallet. I don't have to. Everywhere I go, there they are. On gallery walls in London or Japan, on billboards in Spain or New York, on movie screens in Indiana, Ohio or wherever I happen to be traveling. Since birth, they have been the subject of my art, be it paintings, billboards or whatever form my art takes at any given moment. Their participation involved weekly photo shoots that provided me with the raw material for the next week's work. Most recently, I have collected selected paintings of my kids, created over the last 10 years for a new book from 9mm Press titled Son of Pop. It's sort of an oddball family album. My children, Zephyr, 11 and Mars, 8, have been very patient with their artistic dad over the years. While I found posing for relatives' snapshots in my own childhood annoying and pointless, I can only imagine how my kids have felt, having had to dress up as Shriners, clowns or Kiss Kids for their whole lives. I always assumed they were having as much fun as me. It never occurred to me to ask them what they thought. "
...and now here he's done a painting of our kids! I'm speechless!!!!
Madame xx
Labels: Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, Obey, Ron English, Shepard Fairey
1 Comments:
it is so scary! and weird! and scary! it is exactly like them and their personalities
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