Richard Smith rose to the forefront of the emerging avant - garde scene in London in the 1960s, standing apart from the burgeoning Pop Art movement by melding the slick and vibrant imagery found in advertising billboards and consumer packaging with an abstract
painterly style very much his own.
Not exact matches
This could be a
very cartoony
style, or a more realistic,
painterly look.
Aubrey picked this
painterly, monochrome art
style for several reasons — it fit the theme
very well, he could paint that way
very quickly, and he also just liked the
style and wanted to try it in a game.
Very much a
painterly style, the more abstract and expressive it became, the bigger the opportunity for a new
style which employed more figurative, more down - to - earth imagery: viz, something that the wider artist fraternity could get its teeth into and that viewers could relate to.
Although his
painterly style is
very different from most pop works, his simple images of ultra-American everyday scenes (eg.
I'm usually «safe» in what I wear but this weekend threw on a thrift find of a denim jacket that had a
very colorful,
painterly look to it — not my usual
style at all.