The masterwork stands as a definitive milestone that highlights the conceptual weight of the Live Forever collection. This compelling abstract expressionist painting deploys a stark studio photographic print of global pop culture icon Pharrell Williams, treating the commercial image as a raw landscape for visceral physical deconstruction. Heavily influenced by Andy Warhol's mechanical reproduction strategies and Jean-Michel Basquiat's schematic graphic vocabulary, the composition pairs a highly saturated emerald green acrylic backdrop with an energetic, chaotic web of hand-applied orange, yellow, and red oil pastel marks that systematically fracture the symmetry of the face.
In LIVE FOREVER, the all-new series of acrylic and oil pastel on pigment print, Hunter & Gatti engage with the discursive and artistic discoveries of two major pillars of contemporary art. We find Basquiat’s schematic but deeply striking iconography, together with a Warholian study of the mechanical reproduction of an image, where each singular reproduction is made unique by its intervention in paint.
Purchase this unique museum-quality abstract expressionist painting by Cristian Hunter online directly through the The Art Design Project gallery.
