“Early Imperial Disaster in Blue & Yellow” - 2019 by contemporary artist Taylor Smith. Oil, enamel, vintage wallpaper, transfer & gold leaf on panel
Taylor Smith’s mixed media painting, Early Imperial Disaster in Blue & Yellow is a study of art history, fashion house brands, data corruption and memory loss and it’s impact on the breakdown of the American Dream. Wealth, luxury, life, death, memory and our own very shiny dreams are represented in this series of art history-conscious paintings. Taylor Smith speaks to contemporary facets of life in the 21st century by referencing data corruption, technology, luxury designer goods, inequality, social chaos, consumerism and art history.
Smith appropriates source material from social media, pop culture, art history, European fashion houses, and the local shopping mall while utilizing materials such as silk screen, enamel, precious metal leaf, ink and transfer as a means to mechanically fix these images in dark take on the American Dream.
Pop Art Street Art Graffiti Fusion Painting titled “Early Imperial Disaster in Blue & Yellow” by contemporary artist Taylor Smith.
Smith uses designer logos from the LMVH Louis Vuitton, vintage wall paper, AI software to intentionally pixel glitch classic Greek and Roman sculptures and high-gloss epoxy resin to speak to memory loss, social inequality, wealth and art history. Artworks are hand painted and silkscreened on canvas, paper and wood panel. At the crossroads of culture and crime, this is art that makes you think. From the “Luxurious Disaster” series of original paintings and screen prints.
