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Robert Mars "Safari Inn" - Hand-Embellished Unique Print #2/2

Safari Inn Autographed hand-embellished archival pigment print • Vintage collage, aerosol and diamond dust on Hahnemühle William Turner matte fine art paper, 310 GSM • Hand-varnished • 24 x 24 inches

Hand-embellished, signed and numbered by artist Robert Mars • #2/2

House of Roulx blind embossed stamping • Authentic Edition rubber stamp on verso • Letter of authenticity



ROBERT MARS

“My paintings employ layers of color, subtly collaged printed matter from the 1950’s and 1960’s, and stark, black imagery. Remote, indistinct landscapes capture the once poetic, and now nearly lost highway strips of the American past. Formerly the promise of hope and prosperity; these icons are now a sign of desperation and ruin.”
- Robert Mars

Robert Mars’ artwork chronicles an evolving fascination with the Golden Age of American popular culture and celebrates the icons of the 1950’s and 60’s by taking inspiration from this culture long past. Through the application of a rich color palette and tongue-in-cheek attitude, Mars’ paintings evoke a vintage quality of design and pay homage to the idealized age of growth and hopefulness that was prevalent in the USA at the end of the Depression. A time before the internet and mobile technology, where information was not instantly available to millions and there was no such thing as instant internet celebrities, and instead people lived with the myth of the unique, untouchable and unforgettable personalities of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn and Elvis Presley.

 


 

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Hand-Embellished, Signed and Numbered by Robert Mars

Special Edition • #1/2

Vintage Collage, Aerosol and Diamond Dust on Hahnemühle William Turner Matte Fine Art Paper, 310 GSM - Hand-Varnished