Category Archives: Pop Art
Pop Art is art based on the mass culture realm of consumerism, popular media and commercial enterprises
Contemporary Art and the Death of Contemplation
Contemporary art has been hit hard by our inability to focus, meditate or even take five minutes alone with a painting. With my painting Death of Contemplation, the title comes from my lament for a time before incessant distraction. When you could fall into a deep, thoughtful meditation and slowly mull over an idea until […]
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Life’s a Trip
Cover art for Trippie Redd’s Life’s A Trip album, August, 2018. Life’s A Trip The initial design, grew and blossomed from this point of beginning (below)…eventually leading to the final artwork above. Combining symbolic characters in a colourful explosion of activity Stephen Gibb followed Trippie’s suggestions of making the cover something so visually dynamic that […]
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Anatomy of The Frog Prince At The Gates Of Decay
Frog Prince Anatomy: Analytical dissection of The Frog Prince At The Gates Of Decay To understand the motivation and source of my Frog Prince painting’s inspiration it’s probably best to break it apart and examine the bits close-up. The Frog Prince or the Prince Frog The central figure is the frog prince, which was chosen […]
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Canadian cuisine
Some fun paintings by Canadian Artist Stephen Gibb, celebrating Canada's 150th birthday
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Pop Surrealism meets Pop Art
When Pop Surrealism and Pop Art collide the results are Bubblegum Surrealism
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Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow