Lips. A motif from pop art culture. A sensual mouth in comic style. Fine art.
Lips. A motif from pop art culture. A sensual mouth in comic style. Fine art.

LIPS

LIPS is a Pop Art quote from pop cul­ture: a comic-style close-up of lips that burst like speech bub­bles. Bold dots, crisp lines, and deep blue turn voice into image—desire, wit, and atti­tude trans­lat­ed into min­i­mal form. The piece nods to clas­sic comics and adver­tis­ing while claim­ing its own present tense: play­ful, styl­ish, unmis­tak­able. Hang it as a punch­line on your wall, or as a whis­per that keeps speak­ing. LIPS cel­e­brates the fun of pic­tures that talk. A bright wink to pop his­to­ry and now! LIPS is part of the art series “Blue in a Squar”, which includes 300+ artworks.

Famous for 15 seconds.

Pop­u­lar, that’s what every­one sud­den­ly wanted to be. It cul­mi­nat­ed in Andy Warhol’s line: “In the future, every­one will be famous for 15 min­utes.” How vision­ary that was is obvi­ous today, even if 15 min­utes have often shrunk to 15 sec­onds. Doing what’s pop­u­lar (and makes you pop­u­lar) became the mantra of an era. As so often, art picked up on this shift early—if not ahead of its time.

Pop cul­ture intro­duced a new cur­ren­cy: fame. Becom­ing famous, being famous. Every­day life turned into a stage; self-pre­sen­ta­tion spread every­where. Every­thing became show, runway, per­for­mance. Self-worth got mea­sured by vis­i­bil­i­ty. People did all sorts of things to gain notoriety—Saturday Night Fever cap­tures this momen­tum perfectly.The triv­ial was ele­vat­ed to art: tomato soup cans, diaper packaging—nothing was safe from becom­ing iconic. The spot­light could fall on anyone and any­thing. That’s why Pop Art has always cap­ti­vat­ed me: if any­thing can be art, then I can make art—or be it. The shift accel­er­at­ed so quick­ly that street art (“graf­fi­ti”) became art as well. By def­i­n­i­tion, art broke free from the narrow con­fines of the past.

That is pre­cise­ly what pop cul­ture and Pop Art, record. The art­work “Lips” is a homage to that time and its aes­thet­ics, the era of my gen­er­a­tion. It freed my idea of art and shaped me pro­found­ly. The art­work “Lips” is online-only via my Art Store: inquire, receive a quote, order, and have it deliv­ered. All works come ready to hang.

Canon Fine-Art inkjet print on pre­mi­um Hah­nemüh­le Photo Rag 308 gsm paper. Art­work size freely selec­table: from at least 20 × 20 cm up to 120 × 120 cm. Mount­ed on 2 mm alu­minum Dibond with a white wooden shadow-gap frame. Pricing/quote on request, depend­ing on size and quantity.

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