Animalistic Pop Art
Roby Dwi Antono is a visual artist mainly creating surrealistic paintings as well as sculptures and prints. His work opens a portal to another universe where spaceships, aliens, dinosaurs and creatures with humanly features come together. These surrealistic creations that once lived only in Dwi Antono’s imagination come to life in a new realm on his canvas. Inspired by his childhood memories and love for Fiction movies, his paintings are left for the viewer to interpret.
Mauro Bergonzoli is an Italian artist living and working near Munich.
Mauro showed a talent for drawing early on and found work quite quickly in advertising agencies in Milan. This was followed by a 25-year career as a creative director in commercial and animated films. It was only after that that Bergonzoli turned to pure art.
Bergonzoli is best known for his contemporary "canaletto-sketch" interpretations of Venice. In his signature neo-pop style, he shows the ancient trading city in all its splendor and splendor. The artist uses mostly acrylic paints, and his favorite chips - the all-seeing eye and the magic rabbit - give a twist to his creations.
David (Dudu) Gerstein is an Israeli painter, sculptor, draftsman and printmaker.
Gerstein received a broad education: he studied at the Bezalel Academy, then at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, in New York he continued his studies at the Art Students League, and in 1974 he received a diploma from St. Martin's School of Art in London. He works freely in all media: printmaking, painting, sculpture, drawing, murals and monumental creations.
In the 1970's Gerstein began experimenting with three-dimensional works, leaving cut-out fragments hanging in space. After many innovations, David began creating wall sculptures made with laser cutting and automotive paint. He created his own kind of pop art and gained an international reputation for his signature style with colorful images of numerous cyclists, butterflies, dancers, runners and more. With the advent of computers, he was able to convert his drawings into perfectly formatted patterns that can be faithfully reproduced in a metalworking shop.
And Gerstein's recognizable monumental sculptures can be seen in cities around the world. His street sculpture Momentum is Singapore's tallest public sculpture.
Dongi Lee is widely known Korean pop artist who works with popular cartoon-like images. He has attempted to show the result of cultural mixtures that combines two disparate codes such as pop characters like AtoMouse and abstract painting, which reflects our current society in which communication and harmony became a difficult task.
Larry Rivers (born Yitzroch Loiza Grossberg) was an American artist, musician, filmmaker, and occasional actor. Considered by many scholars to be the "Godfather" and "Grandfather" of Pop art, he was one of the first artists to merge non-objective, non-narrative art with narrative and objective abstraction.
Maurizio Savini is an Italian artist and sculptor specializing in the use of chewing gum as a material for his artworks, living and working in Rome.
His sculptures are whimsical and surreal at the same time, underpinned by social and political aspects that refer to a broader reflection on the ecological consequences caused by human actions. For his work, Savini uses pre-packaged finished product from factories.
Hermann Standl is a German contemporary painter. Stylistically, his work can be located between the Neue Wilden, Concrete Art and Pop Art. The artistic oeuvre of Hermann Standl is complex and runs between the poles of abstraction and figuration. His examination of the components of the picture composition, colour, form and space, always remained central. At the beginning of his work, shortly after he left the art academy, he created the lattice paintings. On individual wooden slats, Hermann Standl painted figures in a gestural manner, which, based on the Junge Wilden, convey topoi from everyday existence. Preferred topics were the relationship between humans and their environment or social issues that were topical in the 1990s. Not without an artistic wink, he explores the philosophical limits of the concept of home in a globalized world. The large-format paintings that he created around 2009 bear witness to this confrontation with his Bavarian country of origin. Entirely in the style of Pop Art, Hermann Standl combined iconographic elements of Korean culture, such as the hummingbird, with the landscapes we are familiar with in Germany. The complete break with the figurative painting style came a few years later: Herman Standl's paintings now consist exclusively of geometric shapes and colors. By playing these off against each other and setting them apart, he explores the limits of the visual: Dark colors set against light create dynamics, concrete forms form the pictorial space.
Walasse Ting (Chinese: 丁雄泉, pinyin: Ding Xiongquan) was a Chinese-American visual artist and poet. His colorful paintings have attracted critical admiration and a popular following. Common subjects include nude women and cats, birds and other animals.
