"Critics have responded to my art as though I was sui generis, a self-created eccentric without discernable origins. Very much the opposite is the truth. The origin of my art is the culture at large. I painted and drew as if I were an alien intelligence contemplating my own human species from a distant realm with a bemused objectivity, as though I was encountering them for the first time like David Bowie's Ziggy. What I saw was a strange land filled with archetypes---caricatures."
-Victor Pross
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Victor Pross' hyper-intensive paintings in his book "Icons & Idols" explore the shifting boundaries between beauty and ugliness developing out of the artist's fascination with the illusionary aspects of pop culture. Pross’ paintings examine the varying layers of human perception by manipulating form and color and tours a netherworld populated by movie stars, musicians political figures, and ordinary people that are stretched and distorted but are always alarmingly recognizable.
Pross employs a meticulous melding of hyperrealism and surrealism to make his vision come to life. With over 80 drawings and paintings, "ICONS & IDOLS" magnificently surveys the past decade of Pross' vision and insights of the human condition. This is a Must-Have!
"Icons & Idols - Pop Goes the Culture" is now going to be a documentary film.
You can order your copy of "ICONS & IDOLS" by calling 604-593-3197.
Or you can purchase a copy online at:
For a signed copy, please contact the artist directly at:
artpross [at] hotmail [dot] com
"Victor Pross' portraits examine in subjective-sometimes hideous, often hilarious-detail the faces of those who've shaped our times."
- Edward Keenan, media writer and editor for Toronto's Eye Newspaper.
