Bulzei  
   

Pop Art, and art of the sixties in general, has been having something of a renaissance in recent years, and I decided I wanted to jump on the bandwagon and join in the fun. The target is a decorative device that has been used again and again through out the late 20th C. Jasper Johns is one such artist who repeatedly used the target in his work, as seen in his piece 'Target with four faces' (1958) and another artist who also uses the target for entirely different reasons is Kenneth Noland with his piece 'Reverberation (1961).

Targets pop up all over the place as a graphic device, album covers, logos, and many other art forms. Most recently, a piece commissioned by London Underground's Platform for Art, entitled 'you are in London' (2004) by Emma Kaye emblazoned the walkways of many a tube station.

Such is the popularity of the target that it seemed a suitable image to use in order to create a 'modern art' background, where it becomes a decorative method with which to present the subject. I was pleasantly surprised by the dynamism that it adds to the image.

I chose a Bullterrier for this painting, because like the target, bullterriers are popular not only as pets, but also as images in advertising, design and art, perhaps it is their unique profile that makes them so, or their robust personalities, or the fact that to look at they are both comic and threatening at the same time. What ever it is, the fact remains that their occurrence in graphic form is disproportionate to their numbers.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
  Bulzei
   
 

Pop Art, and art of the sixties in general, has been having something of a renaissance in recent years, and I decided I wanted to jump on the bandwagon and join in the fun. The target is a decorative device that has been used again and again through out the late 20th C. Jasper Johns is one such artist who repeatedly used the target in his work, as seen in his piece 'Target with four faces' (1958) and another artist who also uses the target for entirely different reasons is Kenneth Noland with his piece 'Reverberation (1961).

Targets pop up all over the place as a graphic device, album covers, logos, and many other art forms. Most recently, a piece commissioned by London Underground's Platform for Art, entitled 'you are in London' (2004) by Emma Kaye emblazoned the walkways of many a tube station.

Such is the popularity of the target that it seemed a suitable image to use in order to create a 'modern art' background, where it becomes a decorative method with which to present the subject. I was pleasantly surprised by the dynamism that it adds to the image.

I chose a Bullterrier for this painting, because like the target, bullterriers are popular not only as pets, but also as images in advertising, design and art, perhaps it is their unique profile that makes them so, or their robust personalities, or the fact that to look at they are both comic and threatening at the same time. What ever it is, the fact remains that their occurrence in graphic form is disproportionate to their numbers.