Funko Pop! DC Batman: Batman Artist Series #04

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Read more about the history of Pop art and the style’s famous artists, and browse the collection of original Pop art paintings, prints, photography and other works for sale on 1stDibs.

I’ve been working professionally with the movie studios for 10+ years; creating posters, standees, DVD boxes, etc. Personalized advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. Batman" by Pop Art Reproduction will come with a Free Certificate of Authenticity that verifies the authenticity of the hand-painted fine art reproduction you purchased.In a sense, Warhol’s Sleep (1963) and Empire (1964) paved the way for such outrageous duration and built-in repetition. Each canvas reproduction may vary slightly in brush details due to the nature of being hand painted, so no two paintings are the same. It is characterized by using images as objects of popular culture or everyday life, obtained from the media. The show, initially broadcast cliff-hanger style on successive evenings, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30 PM, lasted only two and a half seasons—just a speed bump in Batman’s nearly eight-decade career—but its goofy lèse-majesté besmirched the durable icon forever. In stark contrast to traditional artistic practice, its practitioners drew on imagery from popular culture — comic books, advertising, product packaging and other commercial media — to create original Pop art paintings, prints and sculptures that celebrated ordinary life in the most literal way.

Neo-Pop artists like Jeff Koons and Takashi Murakami further blurred the line between art and popular culture. But the show’s main accomplishment was desecrating the Batman—or at least undermining his seriousness. Reporting on the opening of Cheetah, a three-floor nightclub on Broadway at Fifty-Third Street, the New York Times film reviewer Vincent Canby noted that in addition to a giant dance floor and a room big enough to seat eighteen hundred, the club would have rooms devoted to television, Scopitone (the pre-MTV 16-mm musical jukebox), and “movies in the Andy Warhol–Batman genre. Your Batman reproduction will ship via FedEx, UPS or DHL and will be delivered to your door anywhere in the world. Lampooning the institution of show business, Preminger employed as his main strategy a playfulness that upended entertainment conventions to confound normal criticism.

I said to my brother, “Wouldn’t it be funny if I could remake this as a Batman version of “Silence of the Lambs”. Finding an appealing pop art batman — no matter the origin — is easy, but DJ Leon, Doug Bloodworth, Gary John, Ceravolo and John Crash Matos each produced popular versions that are worth a look.