The bus Painting

The red bus, crowded with all sorts of characters, is the life line of the city, a metaphor for life, bursting with color among the grays of the big city. You can meet every kind of person there, at every stage of life... Some happy, some sad, some bored, some in a slumber and oblivious, and some exhilarated by what's going on around. The edgy and annoyed driver honks his horn at something ahead, while the bus splashes through the dirty puddles on the street. My “Blockheads” cycle is inspired by the urban environment and the visual style of street-art culture. It comprises painted wooden-beam sculptures and large-format acrylic paintings with two-dimensional characters that fulfill their individual block of space in their own “mentally limited” way. In the Blockhead acrylic paintings, I approximate street-art murals inspired by urban life: larger-scale compositions with the Blockhead characters in various urban settings. These are all images, scenes, and characters from our everyday city lives and our contemporary popular culture, by which I attempt to portray the current society we are living in—analogously to the paintings of Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Hieronymus Bosch, or James Ensor, who all played with the grotesque, thus offering their critical commentary about the life and people of their own time. My portraits are stylistically very different, of course, since I was brought up with video games, comic books, animation, graffiti, and street art.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:65 W x 31.5 H x 0.8 D in

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