Very unusual and strange – a faint description of the paintings by this artist.
Mark Ryden Mark Ryden) one of the kings of the so-called pop-surrealism. The unique master of his craft, he is one of the most popular artists of our time.
Combining pop culture with the techniques of the old masters, mark Ryden has created a special style that blurs the traditional boundaries between high and low art. His work first attracted attention in 1990, when he opened a new genre of painting – “Pop surrealism”, his strange paintings immediately gained a large number of followers.
Raiden wrote a really weird picture, where else can you see a real mix of cute and creepy is not clear-alarm images. Thin concern dwells within his paintings; the work is painfully beautiful, they seem to hint at deep, dark psychic stuff beneath the surface of cultural kitsch.
Mark Ryden received a BFA in 1987 at the College of design in Pasadena. His strange paintings have been exhibited in many museums and galleries worldwide, including a retrospective “Wondertoonel” at the art gallery in Seattle and at the California Museum of art. Currently, mark lives and works in Los Angeles.
