Picture "Mickey" (2018)
Picture "Mickey" (2018)
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limited, 150 copies | numbered | signed | colour serigraph on handmade paper | unframed | size 62 x 62 cm
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Picture "Mickey" (2018)
Original colour serigraph, 2018. Edition: 150 copies on handmade paper, numbered and signed by hand. Unframed. Motif size/sheet size 62 x 62 cm.
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About James Francis Gill
He is one of the first American Pop artists who is still alive: James Francis Gill, born in 1934.
The pioneer of the Pop Art movement achieved international recognition when the Museum of Modern Art New York exhibited his famous "Marilyn Tryptych" in 1962. At the 1967 "São Paulo Biennial", works by James Francis Gill were exhibited together with those by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Tom Wesselmann, Edward Hopper, Jasper Johns and Robert Indiana. The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts dedicated a retrospective to Gill in 2005.
James Francis Gill's pictures impress with their high colour intensity and strong expressiveness and preferably depict great Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly.
The field of graphic arts, that includes artistic representations, which are reproduced by various printing techniques.
Printmaking techniques include woodcuts, copperplate engraving, etching, lithography, serigraphy, among others.
In the early 1950s, a movement took over the cultural scene. Young artists from the U.S. and the UK independently broke with all traditions of artistic creativity, giving rise to a new art movement in modern art.
In the U.S., Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, and James Rosenquist who were seeking their themes in the world of advertising and comics, in star cult and anonymous urban culture. With bright colours, over dimensioning and manipulating depth perspective, they created new provocative works. Richard Hamilton and Eduardo Paolozzi became pioneers of Pop Art in England through the famous "This is Tomorrow" at London's Whitechapel Art Gallery. In the 1960s, they were followed by David Hockney, Allan Jones, Peter Phillips and Derek Boshier.