Full Time Pleasure
View Similar Items
Robert MarsFull Time Pleasure2014
2014
About the Item
- Creator:Robert Mars (1969, American)
- Creation Year:2014
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
- Medium:
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Boston, MA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: G140324237500
Robert Mars
Juxtaposing the faces of iconic celebrities with patterns reminiscent of quilting and folk art, Robert Mars (b. 1969) considers the many facets of American popular culture through the lens of advertising.
In Mars’s mixed-media works, brand names are collaged beneath the visages of mid-century stars such as Elvis, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Jackie Kennedy, with neon lighting and shiny coats of resin on wood panels lending each piece the allure of a covetable consumer object.
Born in New Jersey, Mars studied at the Parsons School of Design and worked for a time as a graphic designer. His cultural mash-ups draw on imagery from his collection of vintage magazines. Combining enlarged Xerox transfers and boldly painted colors in several built-up layers, his works recall the messy remixing of everyday objects by Robert Rauschenberg as well as the explorations of mass reproduction and fame by Andy Warhol. The shape of a Chanel No. 5 bottle, a Louis Vuitton logo and a photograph of Audrey Hepburn are all plucked from mass media as relics of Americana and the obsession with luxury. Distressing the surfaces of the pieces, Mars gives them a timeworn texture, like an old advertisement that might be found on the wall of a roadside gas station, but with a surreal quality in their recontextualized subjects.
The stars and mass-media material in Mars’s work mostly have origins in the 1950s and ’60s, an age that saw the rise of celebrity endorsements during a postwar economic boom in which there were plenty of novel new products to promote. An image of Jackie Kennedy is overlaid with ad copy for Dior; a photograph of a victorious Muhammad Ali is joined with Champion Spark Plugs typography. The nostalgia here is for commerce as much as it is for people who became a brand. In the artist’s dynamic collages, the lines between what, or who, is being packaged and sold are blurred.
Mars has produced commissions for Coca-Cola, was a featured artist for a project with Kari Whitman Interiors and was chosen in 2015 for the cover of Neiman Marcus’s May Book. He has exhibited at the Evansville Museum of Art, Coral Springs Museum of Art and elsewhere.
Find Robert Mars mixed-media works, paintings and other art on 1stDibs.
- I Love YouBy Mr. BrainwashLocated in Boston, MAArtist: Brainwash, Mr. Title: I Love You Date: 2024 Medium: Silkscreen and Mixed Media on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 30" Framed Dimensions: 36" x 36" x 2" Signature: Sig...Category
2010s Street Art Mixed Media
MaterialsScreen, Mixed Media
Price Upon Request - Everyday LifeBy Mr. BrainwashLocated in Boston, MAArtist: Brainwash, Mr. Title: Everyday Life Date: 2023 Medium: Silkscreen and Mixed Media on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 22" x 22" Framed Dimensions: 28" x 28" x 2" Signature: ...Category
2010s Street Art Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Screen
Price Upon Request - DomingoLocated in Boston, MAArtist: Reijnders, Bram (Dutch, 1974- ) Title: Domingo Edition: Unique Medium: Mixed Media Dim.: 51" x 67" (unframed) Year: 2022 Provenance: Bram Reijnders StudioCategory
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media
Price Upon Request - Never, Never Give Up!By Mr. BrainwashLocated in Boston, MAArtist: Brainwash, Mr. Title: Never, Never Give Up! Series: No Date: 2022 Medium: Silkscreen and Mixed Media on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 30" x 22" Framed Dimensions: 36" x 2...Category
2010s Street Art Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Spray Paint
Price Upon Request - Keep It UnrealBy Mr. BrainwashLocated in Boston, MAArtist: Brainwash, Mr. Title: Keep It Unreal Date: 2023 Medium: Silkscreen, mixed media on paper Unframed Dimensions: 50" x 38" Framed Dimensions: 55.75" x 43.75" Signature: Si...Category
2010s Street Art Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Color
Price Upon Request - Caught Red HandedBy Mr. BrainwashLocated in Boston, MAArtist: Brainwash, Mr. Title: Caught Red Handed Date: 2022 Medium: silkscreen and mixed media on Canvas Unframed Dimensions: 48" x 36" Signature: Signed by Artist Edition: Uni...Category
2010s Street Art Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media, Color
Price Upon Request
- Women - Original China Ink and Pastel by Mariano Villalta - 1970sBy Mariano VillaltaLocated in Roma, ITHand signed lower left. Graffiti, pastel and china ink. Passepartout included : 49 x 34Category
1970s Surrealist Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media
$428 Sale Price25% Off - Untitled - Mixed Media on Wood Inserted into Plexiglass - 1999By Matteo BasilèLocated in Roma, ITUntitled is an original artwork realized by Matteo Basilè in 1999. Installation inserted into plexiglass. Hand-signed, dated and inscripted on the bac...Category
1990s Contemporary Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media
$11,159 Sale Price30% Off - A Night in Paris - Mixed Media on Paper by P. Scoppetta - 1911By Pietro ScoppettaLocated in Roma, ITA Night in Paris is an original decorative object realized by Pietro Scoppetta in 1911. Mixed media on paper. Hand-signed and dated on the lower left corner: Pietro Scoppetta 1911. A frame is included. Very good conditions. Very elegant, beautiful impressionistic work realized in the first years of the XX Century by the important Italian artist Pietro Scoppetta. The work is characterized by a very impressionistic stroke and touch and depicts a scene during a Parisian night. The figures of the woman in the streets are only sketched but we can feel the elegance and the beauty of the Paris during the fin du siècle. The work has been realized by Pietro Scoppetta (Amalfi, 1863 - Neaples, 1920) an Italian artist. He dedicated himself initially to architectural studies, he abandoned them to form artistically, under the guidance of Giacomo Di Chirico. Resident in Naples, he had the opportunity to live in a climate of strong movements of cultural evolution. Scoppetta decided to leave Italy for abroad, and stayed a long time in London and Paris. In Paris, where he lived between 1897 and 1903, he joined the large group of Neapolitan painters, attracted by the bourgeois suggestions of the Belle Époque, including Lionello Balestrieri...Category
1910s Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media
- Oh la la, Mixed Media on Wood PanelBy Julia HackerLocated in Yardley, PAOh-la-la is an original mixed media artwork on a wood panel. Julia Hacker used elements of fashion and uplifting colors of gold, pink, pale blue. A beautiful female face on the flora...Category
2010s Art Deco Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media
- Queen ElizabethBy Willy PoganyLocated in Fort Washington, PAFrom the Estate of John McLaughlin. Signed center left. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His influences were the Oriental artists...Category
20th Century Other Art Style Mixed Media
MaterialsBoard, Mixed Media
$11,500 - A Woman's Place, Book Cover IllustrationBy John BarkleyLocated in Fort Washington, PASigned on Verso Cover illustration for A Woman's Place by Marita Golden (New York: Ballantine Books, 1986). 16.50" x 16.50" image on 19-inch square board, mounted to foam board. Bar...Category
1980s Mixed Media
MaterialsMixed Media