errÓ born in iceland 1932 „i paint because painting is a private utopia“

ERRÓBorn in Iceland1932

„I paint because painting is a private utopia“

He uses a lot of cartoon images and puts them in a new context.

Erró is a postmodern artist and the first icelandic POP artist. He takes popular images out of their original context and starts by making a collage which he then paints with oil on canvas most of the time but he makes also many prints and even murals.

Many of Erro´s work are a kind of hommage to some previous famous painters as this one which is partly in the style of the french painter Léger

You can spot the face of Picasso here amongst some cartoon characters, and a bit of the

Cubist style

This one is called The Pallet of Goya

This painting has a strong reference to the famous piece of Munch: The Scream

Erró has also made many murals for different places.

A mural in the Oriente Metro Station in Lisbon

One of the caracteristic features of Erró´s work is the abundance of

everything

Foodscape, not landscape!

Manga Picasso

This is a painting on the icelandic nobel price author Halldór Kiljan Laxnes

There are so many ways to work with Erró´s work, we find him very inspiring. We like to make collages with images of

things that we really like, but it can be about anything…food, animals, people or something

that is POPular or in the spotlight right now.