Designs by Ravi Zupa, Part of the Strike Your Fancy Series by Ravi Zupa and Arna Miller.
- 11" x 17" 3-Colour Screen Print
- 28 x 43 cm
- Print only
This is Certified Organic Intelligence Art! Everything about this poster celebrates human creativity. It begins with a real person using good old-fashioned paper and pencil to create the entire piece.
Ravi Zupa has spent decades studying books about the art, mythology, religion, and history of cultures from across geography and time. Entirely self-taught, Zupa looks to works by German Renaissance printmakers, Flemish primitives, abstract expressionists, Japanese woodblock artists, and Mughal painters for inspiration. He also frequently incorporates religious iconography from Europe, Asia, and Pre-Columbian Latin America with revolutionary propaganda from around the world. With a distaste for ironic art or the thoughtless appropriation of culture, he integrates seemingly unrelated images in search of something universal. Zupa does not create any of his art digitally; everything comes from his own hand. The content of these works reflects a lifetime spent studying and interpreting artistic movements and visual vocabularies from around the world as well as reverse-engineering their methods to recreate and combine them. It also draws from a childhood shaped by a similar blending of cultures and enriched by exposure to diverse forms of art and thought.