1. Ron English was born on June 6,1959 and is an American contemporary artist who explores brand imagery, street art, and advertising.
19 Facts About Ron English
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Ron English coined the term POPaganda to describe a mash-up of high and low cultural touchstones, from superhero mythology to totems of art history, populated with his original characters, including MC Supersized, the obese fast-food mascot featured in the movie Super Size Me, and Abraham Obama, the fusion of America's 16th and 44th Presidents.
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Ron English has collaborated with Daniel Johnston and Jack Medicine in the Hyperjinx Tricycle project.
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Ron English is the subject of a Pedro Carvajal documentary titled Popaganda.
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Ron English is a subject of "The Art Army" action figures by Michael Leavitt.
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Ron English has initiated and participated in illegal public art campaigns since the early 1980s and for this is often referred to as the 'Godfather of Street Art'.
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Frequent targets of Ron English's work include Joe Camel, McDonald's, and Mickey Mouse.
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Ron English intends his culture jamming technique to inspire people to question consumer capitalism.
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Later Ron English focused on another form of advertising: product packaging.
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Ron English received his bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.
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Ron English moved to New York City and apprenticed with several artists, beginning to sell his own work.
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Ron English's style is characterized by extreme photo realism, use of secondary color and appropriation of pop imagery.
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Ron English uses historical imagery as a template to explore universal issues.
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Ron English has frequently reworked images of The Last Supper, Starry Night, and Picasso's Guernica.
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Ron English has appropriated many well known images and characters from pop culture, reworking them into his own images.
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In 1980, Ron English exhibited "Grade School Guernica", one of his versions of Picasso's Guernica, at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art in Houston.
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In 2005 Ron English began creating designer toy versions of his creatures.
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Ron English joined singer Chris Brown to launch their "Dum English" toy; a 10-inch turquoise and pink Astronaut Star Skull.
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In 2013, Ron English collaborated with rock band Pearl Jam to produce "Falla Sheep", a blind box line-up with seven color variants of 3.5 inch sheep in wolves' clothing toys.