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Artist: Erró
Pop! Goes your idea of traditional visual arts and, Bang! Erró has created an explosion of colour and a comic book-like narrative compl ...show more
Image Code: ER10
- Date of Work: 1994
- Signed by Artist
- Original Silkscreen
- Limited Edition of 200
About the work
Silk Screen printing is one of the oldest known forms of printing an image, dating as far back as Greek and Egyptian times.
As the name suggests, this method uses a fine, porous fabric ...show more
About the artist
Erró, whose real name is Gudmundur Gudmundsson, was born on 19 July 1932 in Olafsvik, in north western Iceland. It was at the tender age of ten that Erró first encountered a passion for art. Upon finding a catalogue from the Museum of Modern Art in New York he became transfixed from that moment forth. He enrolled to the Iceland Academy of the Arts in Reykjavik and later furthered these studies with another course in the city of Oslo. After schooling Erró travelled extensively and began to exhibit his works, first and foremost in Paris, where he chose to make his home in 1958. Erró's art can certainly be typecast as Pop Art, with bold comic-strip characters taken from dozens of cultural resources, the art draws close comparison with propaganda posters. Whilst describing h ...show more
two images available
55cm x 63cm / 22" x 25"
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