ICYMI: Ron English Perfected the Art of Culture Jamming Right Here in North Texas
Ron English has been a major influence on a generation of street artists, so you can thank him for Banksy.Through his movement of"POPaganda," Ron English has created an array of merry mascots that poke fun at the foibles of corporate America — among them MC Supersized and a skeletal take on Charlie Brown named"Grin." No wonder the painter has been described as"Norman Rockwell on acid.
"At some point, you realize if you do something in public, people are going to imitate it. It's not a good thing or a bad thing; it's just a thing," he says of his outsized influence."My trick was to stay in the game. I did street art in the '70s, and back then, there was no social media, so there was no way to see how people were reacting, but, one day, street art became the biggest thing in the world, so I'm not going to walk away from it now.
After earning his MFA at the University of Texas in Austin, English moved to New York to pursue his career in earnest, working as a truck driver and apprenticing with other painters as he pasted his creations over advertisements around the city. Once he realized others were getting credit for his ideas, he shifted from making anonymous work to pursuing his place in tony galleries.
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