Things You Should Know About Robert Mars
Robert Mars draws inspiration from a bygone era of American popular culture to create works documenting a growing nostalgia for the '50s and '60s. Mars' paintings evoke a vintage design quality and pay homage to the idealized era of growth and hopefulness prevalent in the United States at the end of the Depression by applying a rich color palette and tongue-in-cheek attitude. When Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, and Elvis Presley were still alive, people believed in the legend of their distinct, untouchable, and everlasting personalities because there was no such thing as an instant online celebrity. Mars can focus on more in-depth research of the Golden Age of American personalities thanks to the confluence of his notion of personal idols with those of mainstream culture. His first works mirror many of the architectural and mechanical landmarks of the 1950s and 1960s, an era that has always captivated his artistic attention. His first works ar...