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Ron English
Ron English

Ron English is a contemporary pop artist. English first gained fame in 1982 by surreptitiously reworking billboards to critique American society, risking arrest in the process. His career has had a wide trajectory, incorporating neo-surrealist paintings, staged photographs, street art, and music and he has become one of the most famed culture jammers in the world.

To understand Ron English is to understand his times, for English's work is loaded with the visual iconography of his generation. He is interested in exploring the range and power of a deeply American symbology using Pop imagery as metaphor. In juxtaposing loaded images, he forces the viewer to synthesize shared cultural reaction to a certain image with personal and unpredictable interpretations triggered by memory association. Frequent targets of his work include Joe Camel, McDonalds, and Mickey Mouse.



POPaganda: The Art & Crimes of Ron English
“POPaganda: The Art & Crimes of Ron English” is a feature-length documentary by Pedro Carvajal about pop artist and billboard liberator Ron English. The modern day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and directly on hundreds of pirated billboards. Shot entirely guerilla-style, the film chronicles the evolution of an artist who offers an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted and there's always room for a little good-natured fun.

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[|http://www.popaganda.com/] http://www.laughingsquid.com/2005/05/10/popaganda-the-art-crimes-of-ron-english/