Juke Box Burton Morris | 91 x 121 cm | Acryl auf Leinwand

Burton Morris

The US pop artist Burton Morris was born in Pittsburgh in 1964. He studied fine art at Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently worked as an art director in advertising. The artist often chooses one subject per composition: High heels, coffee cups, popcorn bags, lollipops, gumball machines, and other cult objects of everyday and consumer culture, which are also assembled into multi-part pictorial installations. Painted in a stylized comic-like style with black outlines and jagged borders that serve as an abstract flash of emphasis, and with garish gaudy colors, the motifs become iconic pop art images with a signal character intended to immediately appeal to the viewer.