The iconic cartoon art style is appealing and fun without catering too much, if at all, to children.
Not exact matches
Fukui's work makes brilliant use of the instant recognition of
iconic popular imagery: a shorthand for the tropes of our daily lives gathered from
art magazines, anime and
cartoons, news, and popular culture.
Historical and contemporary works of
art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and
iconic objects, like the giant inflatable
cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in Nottingham Contemporary's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.
In the 1950s, Saul introduced the
iconic comic and
cartoon characters, Superman and Donald Duck, to his expressionist paintings; in the mid-1960s, he devoted a series of anti-military works to the Vietnam War; and, in the 1970s, he created his own variations of Rembrant's «The Night Watch» and Picasso's «Guernica», always returning to subjects drawn from mass media and
art history.
Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using
iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political
cartoons and relate to Goya and other
art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.
Historical and contemporary works of
art, videos, machines, archaeological artefacts and
iconic objects, like the giant inflatable
cartoon figure of Felix the Cat — the first image ever transmitted on TV — inhabit an «enchanted landscape» created in the Pavilion's galleries, where objects seem to be communicating with each other and with us.
His paintings, prints and sculptures, including his interpretations of
iconic cartoon characters such as Mickey Mouse and the Smurfs, have shown at multiple museums and galleries including the Brooklyn Museum, NYC; the High Museum of
Art, Atlanta, GA; the Yorkshire Scultpure Park, UK; Gallerie Perrotin, NYC and Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, as well as in Paris, London, Berlin, and Tokyo.