We have recently been featured in two blogs that are big fun in the U.K.! First, ShinyShiny, a great site for gadgets for girls, gave our Pop Art people portraits a bump when they included Pop Art Go in a post:
Pop Art Go, in case you didn’t know, is where we can work the same magic on photos of you or your friends & family that we do when we create our Pop Art dog portraits and cat portraits.
Now, we are flattered to get a mention from RetroToGo, “a guide to all things hip & retro,” which is really cool because obviously we love their stuff too!
They are recommending our Warhol-esque artwork for their readers’ dogs, cats, budgies, or hamsters. (Uh-oh..does anyone know what a “budgie” is?)
We do love our European clients, and the British do love their Pop Art, in fact this fall/winter the National Portrait Gallery in London will be featuring the first major exhibition entirely devoted to Pop Art.
The exhibition titled simply, “Pop Art Portraits” will explore the significance of portraiture within one of the world’s most popular and influential art movements. It brings together over 50 works by 28 American and British Pop artists working on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and 1960s. These include major portraits by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein alongside those of Peter Blake, Richard Hamilton, David Hockney and Patrick Caulfield.
“The exhibition examines these artists’ shared engagement with depicting the famous, using images taken from advertising, pop music, the cinema, magazines and newspapers. It also shows how Pop Art shattered the conventions of portraiture, creating a new genre of fantasy portraits using comic books, magazines and other images drawn from popular culture.”
And we are certainly grateful that they did!!
