The fine art/pop culture mashups of Cypriot artist Hayati.
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A series of paintings by street artist Ron English, putting various pop cultural spins on Picasso’s 1937 anti-war masterpiece (top). Sez he:
I approach the Guernica template cognizant and reverent of its meaning and cultural significance. It is a visual shorthand for the overwhelming and gratuitous horror of modern war. But I argue that the cultural takeaway of Guernica is actually the opposite. It transforms incomprehensible tragedy into a cartoon narrative, something we can more easily absorb. This is part of the human process, to distance ourselves from the immediacy of undiluted, overwhelming emotions by overlaying a narrative that simplifies, and in effect, takes us down from three to two dimensions. And this is the underlying concept that I grapple with in all my many versions of Guernica.
Blob Culture
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By illustrator and graphic designer Alex Solis
Childhood
atHandmade linoleum prints on toned rice paper from Etsy seller Woodcut Emporium (shipping to the US only, dammit)
8 Bit Cats
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An homage to the cats of popular culture by Eurydyka Kata and Rafał Szczawiński of re:design
All your favourite ice-cold pop culture brewskis by Pop Chart Labs.
Large scrollable version here.