Untitled (Book Cover Series)
2017
This artwork by Sharrissa Iqbal is part of her "Book Cover Series," featuring a painting of Reyner Banham's "Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies." Overlaid on the book cover is a smaller painting depicting a modernist house, a swimming pool with a splash, and palm trees, a clear homage to David Hockney's iconic "A Bigger Splash." The piece combines architectural history with art historical references in a distinctive, graphic style.
- Medium
- Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas
Notes
This piece might be titled "Untitled (Book Cover Series)", created in 2017
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David Hockney
British · b. 1937
Hockney's iconic Los Angeles paintings featuring swimming pools, modernist architecture, and palm trees are the direct visual source being homaged in this piece, making his work the closest stylistic and thematic parallel with shared flat graphic color and California subject matter.
Ed Ruscha
American · b. 1937
Ruscha combines graphic design sensibilities, text, and Los Angeles architecture into flat acrylic paintings that similarly merge book culture, signage, and California modernism in a cool, silkscreen influenced visual language identical in spirit to Iqbal's Book Cover Series.
Sigmar Polke
German · b. 1941
Polke layered found imagery, reproduced printed sources, and painted elements together on canvas using silkscreen and acrylic in a way that mirrors Iqbal's technique of combining reproduced book cover imagery with painted pictorial scenes on a single surface.
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