John Scott original mixed media, untitled (Red Man with Gold Crown). Done in Scott's signature style, this piece is in excellent condition, and has been very well framed under glass.
Theme: Fine Art, mixed media, contemporary, social Justice
John Scott, Canadian artist was born in 1950 and died in 2022 in Windsor, Ontario. Scott`s graphic drawings in black paint and charcoal with their deliberately childlike motifs, hand and boot marks and misspellings are his signature, along with his Trans-Am Apocalypse No. 2 (1993), a black, modified Pontiac Trans-Am car that has text scratched into its surface from the Bible's Book of Revelations of St. John the Evangelist (National Gallery of Canada). Among his themes are power, class, industrialization and fear. In 1982, he said that he believes all art has the potential for social and political change. His work first came to critical attention in 1976 in a group show at Sable-Castelli Gallery in Toronto. His first solo show was at Carmen Lamanna Gallery in Toronto in 1981. From the time of his early work, he has used images of skull-like bunny-man figures and technology in his drawings. Around 2005, he began using a figure he called Dark Commander, a sad jokey Napoleon-like cartoon to represent evil.