Original artwork description:

full title "Mix & Match (Fruit of the Loom)"Juxtaposition of classical and contemporary imagery although quoting Pop Art which is around 65 years old isn’t exactly contemporary but you get it; I trust you. Classical bust is bifurcated in part as allusion to the fragmented state of most antiquities from the attrition of the ages also as a reference to the truncated nature of contemporary attention span. The "sale" items; bananas, avocado and the prices and words accompanying them are deployed as PopArt signals of consumerism as culture and emblems of value. The gestural abstraction up top is there to reinforce, above all, this is a painting; this is boilerplate 'Art about Art".

Materials used:

oil on canvas

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