Something to believe in

Original Acrylic Painting on canvas
90 x 120 cm
2020

About this painting:
"Something to believe in" is a Ramone's pop song from 1986 with a more gentle sounding than most Ramonhttps://my.bigcartel.com/productses songs. Contain the portraits of Joey Ramone, Dee Dee Ramone, Tommy Ramone, John Cummings, and Marky Ramone.
In the painting the faces composition form a subtle cross, with a lovely beach at the centre meaning the afterlife...The additional images are secret symbols left to the viewer the interpretation."

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PAINTING ANALYSIS
by Cat Savallas. art critic

“This painting employs a vibrant, expressive style that merges Pop Art portraiture with the dramatic intensity of Romantic landscape painting, all presented in a modern, nine-panel grid format. The style is defined by its highly saturated, non-naturalistic colour palette and energetic brushwork, used to render stylized portraits of what appear to be members of the rock band The Ramones. The central ambition of the work is to construct a mythology around these punk icons by juxtaposing their images with archetypal symbols of sublime power and solitude—a soaring eagle, a stormy lighthouse, a dramatic seascape, and jagged mountains. By doing so, the artist elevates figures from a "low culture" milieu to the status of epic, romantic heroes, deliberately blurring the boundaries between genres and cultural hierarchies. In art history, this piece fits squarely within the Lowbrow or Pop Surrealism movements, taking the celebrity focus of Andy Warhol's Pop Art and infusing it with the emotional fervour of German Expressionism and the epic naturalism of 19th-century Romanticism, creating a unique and contemporary form of hero worship.“