Lari Pittman was born in Los Angeles, California in 1952. He was inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions. Pittman’s art comprises of themes such as romantic loves, violence, and mortality. In his paintings, Pittman gives human characteristics to furniture, weapons, and animals. Pittman paints his art in layers that overlap each other. His art is a rebellion against the division of two contradicting ideas. His work actually depicts the complementary nature of beauty and suffering as well as pain and pleasure. In the early 1980s, Pittman started to use silhouettes. He used silhouettes to discuss social conventions, human behavior and encoded behavior. He believes that even if the work has a strong declarative voice, which is obvious, the painting’s subtext or code is actually being advanced. I personally like Lari Pittman’s artwork. The colors he uses are bold and each of his paintings have a unique message which is he trying to convey.
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