Tim Gatenby’s popular culture parodies, often combining classical with modern imagery to create humorous paintings. His work uses examines art histories’ relationship with the Internet world we now inhabit. There is a twisted nostalgia to Gatenby’s paintings. His work subverts not only through subject matter, but also through technique. Gatenby distorts familiar characters, typically drawn as brightly-coloured and crisp cartoons, by blurring lines between classical painting and modern imagery. As with a lot of appropriation art his work inherently says something about its time as it reflects collective imagery back onto society, reanalysing information in a sort of mirror.
DETAILS
Print size 26cm x 41cm, 10.4inches x 16.0inches
Printed with smooth colour gradients on high quality archival Giclee Hahnemuhle photo rag paper (380gsm)
