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Picasso and Miles Davis. For his campaign, Ron English chose<br />
the serial killer Charles Manson, who looked wide-eyed passers-by<br />
from the top of the billboard.<br />
New World Order is a poster of 1991 when Ron English over<strong>la</strong>ps<br />
the words used by President Bush to talk about the Gulf<br />
War to a very personal rework<strong>in</strong>g of Picasso’s Guernica, entirely<br />
popu<strong>la</strong>ted by Walt Disney characters. This first version of<br />
the poster has been followed by several others on canvas, like<br />
the Red Baron vs. Peanuts, <strong>in</strong> which Snoopy <strong>la</strong>nds on a threedimensional<br />
version of the work by the Spanish artist popu<strong>la</strong>ted<br />
by the other characters of the comic. It does it on an airp<strong>la</strong>ne<br />
whose colors refer symbolically to those of the Fascist<br />
Legionary Air Force. In addition to Guernica, Ron English has<br />
worked on many other famous works of art, such as the<br />
Scream by Munch, the Last Supper by Leonardo da V<strong>in</strong>ci and<br />
the Déjeuner sur l’Herbe by Manet, where the characters<br />
are Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt and Sally Peanuts.<br />
On his canvases, the artist captured not only reworked<br />
American art history works, but also icons and myths of<br />
American culture from the mid-1920’s to the present day:<br />
from Marilyn Monroe and Ronald Mc Donald to Mickey<br />
Mouse, Bugs Bunny, the clown of the American fast food<br />
cha<strong>in</strong>, Superman, the Kiss, Elvis and the Teletubbies.<br />
His children are one of his favorite subjects, to whom Ron<br />
English has dedicated the project Son of Pop - Ron English<br />
pa<strong>in</strong>ts his progeny. In this series of works, the artist turn his<br />
children Mars and Zephyr <strong>in</strong> characters of contemporary pop<br />
scelse il serial killer Charles Manson, che guardava con gli occhi sbarrati<br />
i passanti dall’alto del cartellone pubblicitario.<br />
New World Order è un manifesto del 1991 <strong>in</strong> cui Ron English sovrappone<br />
a queste parole utilizzate dal Presidente Bush per par<strong>la</strong>re del<strong>la</strong><br />
Guerra del Golfo una sua personalissima rie<strong>la</strong>borazione del<strong>la</strong> celebre<br />
te<strong>la</strong> di Picasso Guernica, <strong>in</strong>teramente popo<strong>la</strong>ta da personaggi di Walt<br />
Disney.<br />
A questa prima versione su poster, ne sono seguite numerose altre<br />
su te<strong>la</strong>, come Red Baron vs. Peanuts, <strong>in</strong> cui Snoopy atterra sul<strong>la</strong> versione<br />
tridimensionale dell’opera dell’artista spagnolo popo<strong>la</strong>ta dagli<br />
altri personaggi del fumetto. E lo fa a bordo di un aereo i cui colori rimandano<br />
simbolicamente a quelli dell’Aviazione Legionaria Fascista.<br />
Oltre a Guernica Ron English <strong>in</strong>terverrà su numerose altre celebri<br />
opere d’arte, dall’Urlo di Munch,<br />
al Cenacolo di Leonardo, al Déjeuner sur l’Erbe di Manet, dove i protagonisti<br />
saranno Charlie Brown, Lucy Van Pelt e Sally dei Peanuts.<br />
Sulle sue tele l’artista americano immorta<strong>la</strong> non solo opere di storia<br />
dell’arte rie<strong>la</strong>borate, ma anche icone e miti del<strong>la</strong> cultura americana<br />
dal<strong>la</strong> metà del Novecento ai giorni nostri: da Marilyn Monroe, a<br />
Topol<strong>in</strong>o, da Bugs Bunny a Ronald Mc Donald, il clown del<strong>la</strong> catena di<br />
fast food statunitense, da Superman ai Kiss, da Elvis ai Teletubbies.<br />
Soggetti prediletti dell’artista i suoi figli, a cui Ron English ha dedicato<br />
il progetto Son of Pop – Ron English pa<strong>in</strong>ts his progeny (Figlio del Pop<br />
– Ron English dip<strong>in</strong>ge <strong>la</strong> sua progenie). In questa serie di opere pur<br />
mantenendone <strong>la</strong> fisionomia, l’artista trasforma i suoi figli Mars e<br />
Zephyr <strong>in</strong> una serie di personaggi del<strong>la</strong> cultura pop contemporanea,<br />
da Andy Warhol, a Batman e Rob<strong>in</strong>, a Gene Simmons, <strong>la</strong> voce dei