Urs Fischer.My use of a "cartoon style" comes from growing up in the '70s and '80s. I never read a lot of comic books comic book Bound collection of comic strips, usually in chronological sequence, typically telling a single story or a series of different stories. The first true comic books were marketed in 1933 as giveaway advertising premiums. as a kid but always liked to use a big black pen to outline whatever I was going to draw. One can choose any style that is accessible--I might have chosen Impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to if it had been easy to access. Cartoons just work for me; they provide a language that is very simple and efficient. My choice does not relate specifically to the legacy of Pop art. Rather, it has to do with pop culture, because the historical Pop-sters leveled the ground for pop culture's place in art. Today, it's impossible to distill dis·till v. 1. To subject a substance to distillation. 2. To separate a distillate by distillation. 3. To increase the concentration of, separate, or purify a substance by distillation. the source. Do influences come from popular culture? Or from Pop art? On one hand, a Campbell's tomato-soup can becomes an artwork; on the other, the style of Andy Warhol Noun 1. Andy Warhol - United States artist who was a leader of the Pop Art movement (1930-1987) Warhol turns into an iPod ad.--AS TOLD TO ALISON M. GINGERAS [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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