Video: Small details in vivid paintings, sculptures and installations by Ryan McGinness
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
What happens if the artist decides to create something original, interesting, modern, bright, not at all disgusting, but at the same time sharply different from the classical canons of art? The result is paintings, sculptures and installations by Ryan McGinness, an artist who is called the Andy Warhol of the Information Age. If you look at one picture, you can see thousands of familiar and unfamiliar images in it - from the cover of the album of the group “Misfits” to the artist's girl.
Ryan McGinness is a 38 year old American artist who lives and works in the Manhattan area of New York. He was raised on a surfer and skateboarder culture on Virginia's sunny beaches and studied art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. During his studies, he joined the Andy Warhol Museum as an assistant.
Ryan is known for his original drawing technique, the essence of which is the use of the language of signs in public places, corporate logos, modern methods of artistic illustration in his paintings, sculptures, installations. In them, each small detail has some peculiarity, its own history. His works are exhibited in museums in the USA, Japan, Spain and other countries.
The artist received a lot of positive reviews from critics. “Over the past ten years, McGinness has become a star in the art world thanks to Andy Warhol's pop iconography and screen printing,” writes The New York Times. Ryan McGinness collects materials for his flamboyant creations from a variety of backgrounds: pop culture, surreal landscapes from the music industry. He also uses logos and brands (you can learn how to skillfully use famous world brands for funny creativity in the cartoon "Logorama") There is so much meaning in each of his work that you can think for days on how to connect all these images and symbols together.
“I am inspired by people who do what they want,” the artist says in an interview. “Although I can push off from the smallest detail - somewhere I heard something, somewhere I read something - and work on a new work begins”. On his official website you can see his work from different years, as well as watch an interview with him.
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