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STEPHEN
QUICK
Welcome to Splintered
Studios online art gallery, the web site of original
art for sale by artist Stephen Quick. On the site
you will find affordable pop art paintings, parody art, bespoke
family and loved ones commissions and art prints, along wiith
Stephen Quick's short films and speed painting videos.
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My
Paintings
"We
live in a world where everything including our dreams
are dictated by the media and the celebrities.
With my pop art I embrace the materialistic
nature of our heroes and icons, who we idolize
and sometimes even define who we are." |
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The Manifesto
"My
"Manifesto" is basically an
art gag; a post modern take on
post modern ideals. I take overused cultural
images, mainly what I call "Athena Art", and
give these images a new lease of life.
The images chosen are ones that are so overused that
we no longer look at them; we know what they are, very
much in the same way we do not need to read a coke can
or a McDonalds sign to know what it is. By adding a
Warhol banana, these images takes on new meanings and
make the viewer re-evaluate the subjects
in question. The Bananas in some cases work as
a social commentary (guns replaced
by bananas) or make a comment on the
person or character in the painting (the banana
acting as an innuendo for Audrey Hepburn), they can
also act to reveal new contextual meanings,
all hoping to bring a giggle or a smile
from the viewer"
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| Films
"Many
of the skills I use as a painter I use
in film, however, film, for me, is less about thinking
and more about feeling. Film has one major advantage
to me over other mediums: you can construct a strong narrative,
that can be immediate and clear to the audience, be it
a story or a concept. I have always viewed my films as
writer's films, concepts and structure come from words,
even if they don't exist in the final cut: everything
starts off as a story" |
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"Which
came first the intestine or the tapeworm?"
- W.S.Burroughs |
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Last Updated - 8th
June 2009
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