Inbred/Hybrid is a deconstruction of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" and Jeff Koons' "Rabbit". Ron English displays vintage ironic pop humor with this artwork. There are over 17 reflections of Vincent's masterpiece in Koons' stainless steel "Rabbit." "Inbred/Hybrid" is printed with more than 36 individually hand-painted plates and hand-pulled layers of thick, lustrous full-body enamel ink. Dense archival pigment on fine 35"x45.5" museum grade rag paper Not a lithoghraph!  In excellent condition and signed by the artist.

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Ron English is a well known and very successful pop artist who built on Andy Warhol’s prolific groundbreaking legacy of interdisciplinary achievements working across different artistic mediums with ease. His unforgettable images have been seen by countless people worldwide on street murals and billboards, as well as in museums, movies, books, music album covers, television, and toys.

English is a fine art oil painter who received his BFA from the University of North Texas and an MFA from the University of Texas. After completing his studies he moved to New York City where he apprenticed with various artists and began selling his own work.

English coined the term POPaganda to describe his signature mash-up of high brow fine art mixed with easily identifiable contemporary cultural iconography to create unforgettable characters. His better known ones include MC Supersized, the morbidly obese fast-food mascot satirizing McDonald’s Ronald McDonald which was featured in the hit movie “Supersize Me,” Abraham Obama, the fusion of America’s 16th and 44th Presidents, and Charlie Brown. Other well known characters seen through English’s art (no matter whether they are in paintings, billboards, or sculpture) include three-eyed rabbits, well endowed cowgirls and grinning skulls. His work has been described as blending stunning and grotesque visuals with biting, dark humor often containing an anti-corporate message meant to get consumers to question the established corporate advertising narrative in order to reveal the truth behind the product. Aside from McDonald’s, other corporate targets include Camel cigarettes, the Walt Disney company, and various unhealthy processed food companies.

He is also well known for re-working famous fine art images such as Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” Van Gogh’s “Starry Night,” and Picasso’s “Guernica.”