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Medium: Enamel
Living for the Now 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Rebirth 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Rebirth" is a compelling artwork created by Dennis Onofua, showcasing a young woman in a standing posture. The title suggests a powerful theme of transf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Compadre 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism, Enamel
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Tamara de Lempicka 'Young Lady with Gloves'" Contemporary Pixelated Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated abstraction of Polish artist Tamara de Lempicka's painting 'Young Lady with Gloves.' Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted block...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Ornamental Cheetah III, Original painting, Animal art, Cheetah painting
Located in Deddington, GB
The piece is part of a series loosely based on figurines I have come across in vintage shops, the figures often being moulded in one with the base, I thought it would be fun to do on...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Eternal Wonder III, Original painting, Animal art, Cheetah, Wild Safari art
Located in Deddington, GB
This piece is part of an ongoing series exploring the use of space, composition and keeping it relatively unfussy. The use of that space then dictates the shape of the animal. I woul...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Mid Century Sgraffito, Saltimbanque and the Card Player, Circle of Picasso.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid 20th Century sgraffito work on plaster by Jean Pierre de Cayeux. The work is signed and dated on the skirt of the card player, bottom right, and on the stretcher of the chair, bo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Compadre 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism, Enamel
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Midnight Showdown on the Hogbacks" oil, spray paint & enamel on canvas 46x38"
Located in Southampton, NY
We are please to announce that we are now representing the Pop Art cowboy and cowgirl paintings of the artist Matt Straub. We at the gallery have been exc...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Triple Elvis" (Denied) Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz
Silkscreen and silver enamel paint on canvas with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board.
82 x 72" inches
2010
This important example was shown alongside works by Warhol in a two-person show "Warhol Revisited (Charles Lutz / Andy Warhol)" at UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts in 2024.
Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image.
Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022.
Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers.
Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9.
Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13.
In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9).
In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13).
Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age.
The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions.
With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86).
The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
AI Reality Soup Street Art Basquiat Style
Located in OIA, ES
🔸 _Title: AI Reality Soup
🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall
🔸 _Year of Creation: 2023
🔸 _Dimensions: 97 W x 130 H x 2.5 D cm
🔸 _Medium: Acrylic, enamel, spray paint, oil pastel
🔸 _Support: Canvas stretched on wooden frame
🔸 _Condition: New work sold directly by the artist
🔸 _Provenance: Directly from the artist's studio
🔸 _Location: Spain
🔸 _Signature: On the front and back
🔸 _Detailed Description:
Iconography of Modernity
"AI Reality Soup" by Diego Tirigall, an artist celebrated for his vibrant Street Art and unfiltered expressionism, invites the viewer into a deeper visual dialogue beyond mere observation. At its core, a skull adorned with a tie confronts the ephemeral nature of life and delves into the complex relationship between personal identity and societal roles. The tie stands...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Paths of Memory - Tag: basquiat style
Located in OIA, ES
🔸 _Title: Paths of Memory
🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall
🔸 _Year of Creation: 2024
🔸 _Dimensions: 200 x 160 cm
🔸 _Medium: Acrylic, Enamel, Oil Pastel, ...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
NOW VII - abstract mixed media street art painting; asphalt, graffiti, letters
By Mat Tomezsko
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Mat Tomezsko's "NOW" series of mixed media street art paintings are built through an elaborate process of layering, patterning, adding, and subtracting an...
Category
2010s Abstract Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
By Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz
Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board.
82" x 40" inches
2010
Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image.
Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022.
Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz.
Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers.
Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9.
Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13.
In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9).
In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13).
Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age.
The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions.
With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86).
The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King.
As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society.
The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored.
Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28).
For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film.
Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Blue Mona Lisa'" Contemporary Leonardo da Vinci Inspired Figure Pixel Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated rendition of a detail from Leonardo da Vinci's renowned painting, the "Mona Lisa."
Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Matisse Blue Nude—Drop a Like - Style Basquiat
Located in OIA, ES
In "Matisse Blue Nude—Drop a Like," Tirigall masterfully bridges classical art and contemporary urban expression. This striking interpretation transforms Matisse's serene figure into...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Large King - Enamels on Vinyl
Located in New York, NY
Cool abstract piece with hues of white, yellow, black, silver, red and green. Abstract king is the central focus. Enamels on vinyl.
About the artist:
Michael has been working as a painter and designer for over 20 years. His work has been exhibited in various galleries and museums throughout the country including The Carnegie Museum of Art, The Austin Museum of Digital Art, The Westmoreland Museum of Art, UICA/Michigan, and The Mattress Factory. His paintings have been featured in Atlantic Homes and Lifestyles, Beaux Arts, Table Magazine, Perlora Contemporary Home Magazine, The Wall Street International Magazine and the cover of Housetrends. His work will also be featured in Design Within Reach’s 2019 Catalog.
His clients have included The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego, Nintendo, IBM, Sony Pictures and Panasonic. His work has been published widely in various publications including TIME, The Wall Street Journal, How Magazine, Graphis, London’s Computer Arts, BIg Magazine, The Book of Probes by Marshall Mcluhan (designed by David Carson), Big Magazine and Speak.
His collaboration with José Muniain on the short film installation “Navarro”, which documented his painting process, was a finalist in the D.C. Independent Film Festival. Some recent projects include the main lobby interior collections for Bakery Living and Bakery Living Blue, The Hardy House at Nemacolin Woodlands, large scale works for The PPG Paints Arena and commissioned work for The New York Pro Surf Competition and The Quiksilver Pro France. His work has also featured prominently on the sets of several feature films and television series, including Trouble With The Curve, The Last Witch Hunter...
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2010s Abstract Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Rebirth 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Rebirth" is a compelling artwork created by Dennis Onofua, showcasing a young woman in a standing posture. The title suggests a powerful theme of transf...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Solidarity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
In the ethereal realm of "Solidarity," Dennis Onofua captures a moment of profound connection and unity between two female figures. The artwork, a testam...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"David Bowie Ziggy Stardust" Contemporary Pop Art Pixelated Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of iconic singer David Bowie Ziggy Stardust. Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks of color come together to for...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Evening Before Haircut--Self-Portrait, " Acrylic and Enamel by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Evening Before Haircut--Self-Portrait" is an original acrylic and enamel painting on paper by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower right. It depicts the artist in blac...
Category
1990s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Large Jack Balas Contemporary Modernist Horse Enamel & Oil Painting Western Art
By Jack Balas
Located in Surfside, FL
Jack Balas
Grid Study, Appaloosa
Oil and Enamel on Board
Inscribed verso, dated 1997-99 and hand signed l.l.
Sight: 24 x 48 in. (61 x 121.9 cm.), Frame: 26 x 50 x 2 in. (65.4 x 127 ...
Category
1990s American Realist Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
SUNGLASSES IN A VEIL (after Sargent) - Abstract Figurative Painting, textured
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
Are those actual sunglasses in that painting? You might be asking. Good question! Keep em comin. But Nope! They are in fact painted. "Sunglasses in a Veil (After Sargent...
Category
2010s Abstract Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Marilyn Monroe Smile" Contemporary Pop Art Inspired Pixelated Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of iconic movie actress Marilyn Monroe. Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks of color come together to form the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Tractor Replaces the Horse
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984)
Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal, Enamel
The Wall (La Pared), Nogales (No Puedo Decir Esto) (#1588)
By Jack Balas
Located in New York, NY
Oil, enamel, and ink on canvas
Signed in black, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City.
Inscriptions read:
THE WALL, NOGALES
In Nogales, I walk across...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Bright Vibrant Pop Art Enamel Oil Painting Flowers NYC Abstract Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Flowers in a Vase, intensely and seductively colored: almost in a Japonaise style. Swooning purples and reds, ecstatic lemon yellows, Jostling shapes, lyrical and soft-edged, refuse ...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Mona Lisa, Gioconda" - Tag: basquiat style
Located in OIA, ES
This bold reinterpretation of Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa comes from Diego Tirigall, an artist whose rise in the contemporary art world is garnering significant attention. Drawing ...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Clown With Flower, Enamel Painting on Copper by Max Karp
By Max Karp
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Max Karp
Title: Clown with Flower
Medium: Enamel on copper, signed lower right
Image Size: 29.5 x 23 inches
Frame Size: 40 x 34 inches
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Vincent Van Gogh, Space Junk.
Located in OIA, ES
"Vincent Van Gogh, Space Junk" catapults the iconic Dutch artist into a surreal collision of art history and futuristic fantasy. This bold creation from 2022 reimagines Van Gogh as a cosmic adventurer, navigating the abstract and chaotic realms of both outer space and digital frontiers.
The painting portrays Van Gogh's head as a striking blue skull, one eye transformed into a cartoon-style eyeball, the other a mouth, illustrating a whimsical yet profound melding of forms and perspectives. A playful bubble gum balloon emerges from his mouth, injecting a casual, cool vibe into the composition. Van Gogh's attire further emphasizes this blend of past and future: he dons a sleek astronaut suit...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Vincent Van Gogh, Olive Trees.
Located in OIA, ES
"Vincent Van Gogh, Olive Trees" captivates with a vivid reimagination of the legendary artist, intertwining iconic elements of his life and work into an intriguing narrative canvas. ...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Guilded Native, Pop Art Acrylic Painting by Michael Knigin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Michael Knigin, American (1942 - 2011)
Title: Guilded Native
Year: 1988
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed and dated in pencil
Size: 84 x 45 inches
Category
1980s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Brando and G, Mixed Media painting, oil, acrylic, spray paint & archival ink
By Ceravolo
Located in Southampton, NY
This mixed media painting on canvas measures 36x54" framed size 38x56". Titled "Brando and G", it is in Ceravolo's classic urban Pop style. In this mixed media painting on canvas ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Matisse Blue Nude—Give Me a Match - Style Basquiat
Located in OIA, ES
Diego Tirigall’s "Matisse Blue Nude—Give Me a Match" is a bold, expressive reimagining of a classical masterpiece, infused with the raw energy of street art and the hyper-connectivit...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Cake Stacked: Blue on Yellow
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Moody Mermaid (Green)
By Adam Umbach
Located in Greenwich, CT
Adam S. Umbach Biography
American, b. 1986
Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Divinity"- Colorful Abstract/Figurative Mixed Media Painting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
John-Herbert was born in Miami and moved to New York city when he was 3 years old. As the son of a Filipno mother and bi-racial father, his multi-cultural roots at first felt like a ...
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2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
FAT BACK - Contemporary Figurative/Abstract Oil Painting, texture, mixed media
Located in Signal Mountain, TN
FAT BACK is part of the latest on-going series from Eleanor Aldrich. These "behind the lawn chair" vantage points provide Aldrich with the perfect subject matter to convey her mixed media approach.
More info below:
Eleanor Aldrich was born in Springerville, Arizona. A participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, she also holds an MFA in Painting & Drawing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she currently lives. She earned her BFA in Painting & Drawing through the Academie Minerva (Groningen, the Netherlands) and Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. She was a participant in the Drawing Center’s first Open Sessions.
Eleanor has had solo shows in Boston, Nashville, Knoxville, Flagstaff, AZ, and at the University of Alabama. Her work has been shown at Saltworks Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Drawing Center (New York, NY), Grin (Providence, RI) and Ortega y Gasset (New York, NY). Her work was chosen for 1708 Gallery’s ‘FEED 2013’ (Richmond, VA). She has been awarded an Endowment for the Arts through the Whiteman Foundation, and the Herman E. Spivey Fellowship. Her work has been included in New American Paintings and on Artforum.
Aldrich's work is textural and alchemical; she matches materials – often industrial sealants – and techniques to the subject matter they look like, thereby approaching a likeness without realistic rendering. She attributes her appreciation of mystery and the possibility of transformation in her work to her Catholic upbringing, in which materials were transformed and images held power over life.
Her work intersects modernist painting, her own experiences, and the physicality of the body. Sometimes her work is about the application – paint is combed, piped, sprinkled and sprayed, reflecting traditional feminine work and crafts. Often the subject matter acts as a metaphor. The lines of a lawn chair seat serves as a veiled reference to the grid, and its breakdown – presumably by human weight – to an imagined encounter with the human body.
*Make sure to use the "view in a room...
Category
2010s Abstract Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Antifa, abstracted figurative with political references
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil, enamel, oil pastel on wood
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Leaving the Garden
Located in Los Angeles, CA
GREG CLARK
"LEAVING THE GARDEN"
MIXED MEDIA ON COPPER, SIGNED
CALIFORNIA, DATED 1992
32 X 48 INCHES
GREGORY CLARK IS AN ARTIST FROM SAN DIEGO CALIFO...
Category
1990s Symbolist Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper, Enamel
Cake Stacked: Blue on White
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Geppetto’s GPT Awakening - Basquiat Style
Located in OIA, ES
🔸 _Title: Geppetto’s GPT Awakening
🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall
🔸 _Year of Creation: 2023
🔸 _Dimensions: 97 W x 130 H x 2.5 D cm
🔸 _Medium: Acrylic, ...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Virus Americanus XII
Located in New York, NY
Virus Americanus XII, 2002
oil enamel on canvas
150 x 128 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Vincent Van Gogh, Decentralized Street Art Basquiat Style
Located in OIA, ES
Dive into the rebellious spirit of "Vincent Van Gogh, Decentralized," a provocative piece from the same series that reimagines the storied artist under a modern lens. This 2022 artwo...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Frida Kahlo in Rebozo" Contemporary Pop Art Inspired Pixel Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo wearing a rebozo, a Mexican garment worn like a shawl or scarf. Similar to pointillism, the individual ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Living for the Now 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Vincent Van Gogh, In Space.
Located in OIA, ES
"Vincent Van Gogh, In Space" redefines the legendary painter as a celestial sovereign, blending classic artistic reverence with futuristic exploration. This 2022 painting offers a visual narrative that launches Van Gogh into the cosmos, adorned not only with an astronaut’s suit...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Vincent Van Gogh In a Time of Pandemic.
Located in OIA, ES
This bold portrayal, titled Vincent Van Gogh In a Time of Pandemic, reimagines the iconic artist in a contemporary light. Created in 2022, this piece is part of an intriguing series ...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Crypto Vincent Van Gogh
Located in OIA, ES
This piece is part of a special collection curated by Saatchi Art, where 154 artists were carefully selected from among hundreds of thousands of Saatchi participants. The premise of ...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Vincent Van Gogh Skull.
Located in OIA, ES
"Vincent Van Gogh Skull" is a striking piece from a series that boldly merges historical artistry with contemporary symbolism. Created in 2022, this painting reenvisions the iconic f...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
The Order of the Heart in the Hand
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Order of the Heart in the Hand is a mixed media painting (acrylic and gold enamel on hand-aged canvas) with a canvas size of 48 x 48 inches, signed 'afn' lower center and framed in a contemporary black moulding.
Anne Faith...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Caripela
Located in OIA, ES
In "Caripela," Diego Tirigall presents a raw, minimalist expressionist portrait that diverges from his usual style. The 80 cm by 100 cm painting draws the viewer into a deep emotiona...
Category
2010s Street Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Brilliant Stars
Located in Deddington, GB
This piece explores movement and was very much inspired by the painting 'Dynamism of a dog on a leash' by Balla 1912. The canvas is stained pine wood.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY:
Adam Bartlet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Living for the Now 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
"Raphael Botticelli. 'Cherubs Virgin Mary'" Contemporary Pixel Figure Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated rendition of a detail from Raphael Botticelli's renowned painting titled "Sistine Madonna."
Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-paint...
Category
2010s Pop Art Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Very important enamel plaque
Located in PARIS, FR
Allegories of Carnal Love and Chaste Love
by Paul GRANDHOMME (1851-1944) and Alfred GARNIER (1848-1908)
Very important plaque in translucent and opaque polychrome enamel on copper,
with gold spangles and gold highlights.
Set in its original silver setting.
Presented in its original morocco leather box...
Category
1880s Renaissance Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Orange Cake Stacked on White
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Among my swan, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Among my swan, 2018 by Ramonn Vieitez
Oil, enamel, acrylic, latex on canvas
Size: 39.4 H x 27.6 W in.
Signed on the back by the artist
Unframed
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Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught B...
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Red Cake Stacked on White
By Gary Komarin
Located in Fairfield, CT
Unique; Water-based enamel paint on paper stacks
Category
2010s Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Amber Lens
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original enamel on metal painting by emerging contemporary conceptual artist Craig Sheperd (b. 1984)
Craig Sheperd’s paintings, most of which are enamel on metal, were created o...
Category
2010s Conceptual Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Compadre 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism, Enamel
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gal...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Enamel Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Enamel figurative paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Enamel figurative paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add figurative paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, green, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Eleanor Aldrich, Gary Komarin, John Grande, and Pablo Echaurren. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Pop Art, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Enamel figurative paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available