Erró

Erró is, as of course we all know, the greatest Icelandic pop artist. He stopped trying to make sense in about the middle of the 1980s and is much the better for it, perhaps. The early paintings and screen prints are funny, but a bit obvious. For example, he went through a period of making quite interesting photo-realist pictures of Venice, into the foreground of which he would then paint the massed hordes of the Chinese Army. East vs. West, capitalist decadence (Venice is literally sinking), and so on. There are also some good but obvious pictures which have: at the top, a picture from a propaganda poster of a Japanese soldier running towards the enemy; at the bottom, a picture from some Classical Japanese pornography. Sex and death, and so on. And then in the 1980s he got into Marvel comics and high vs. low art, and becomes funnier and less concerned with trying to get a message across. And much the better for it, perhaps.