Originals in this selection, Urban and Pop.
Pictures like posters
Urban and pop bring street, advertising, comics and consumer culture into painting: loud colors, clear shapes, signs everyone knows. Anyone who wants paintings in the style of urban and pop for sale finds works that combine speed and irony.
Urban art uses stencils, spray paint and lettering, pop uses flat color and familiar symbols. Both directions like loud contrasts. On canvas this becomes a painting that demands a wall and works as a picture from afar.
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Materials and effect
Typical are acrylic on canvas, acrylic on wood or board and occasionally oil paint. Spray paint provides gradients and soft edges, markers and varnish hard lines. The mix makes pictures look as if they grew out of a city.
Choosing for the room
Such pictures tolerate color in their surroundings but not too many patterns. A clear background helps them. Ask about a protective coat when spray paint was used, and about the edge of the canvas.