French Pop Art

Having moved on from a universal idiom of danger the skull and bone emblem have become quite trendy. Decorating many a person widely unaffiliated with piracy, at least piracy in it's older non digital form it's now very popular part of art in the pop and underground cultures. Here in Paris where this culture is on the rise one can see many creations like this in small art exhibits all around town.

Often these exhibits are free and and held at bars and they display mostly from small scale artist with barley a website to sell from (http://xxxprod.com/). Despite this cost are relatively low which may be something that prevents it from being a real source of income for these struggling artits. After all it's not real art if it's not expensive like one successful artist told me ;)

Either way it's still way more in my liking than heap of diffuse classical style oil painting adoring many well off homes and such. After all video game art and pop art does have another appeal to the kinds having grown up with Famicons, Amigas and what not's as their biggest sources of art and inspiration.

Something that is quite nice it that they are mostly free. So why not enjoy a day in Paris checking out the free art scene. There is plenty of street art to find around town and combined with these small scale pp culture exhibits a day or two could easily be spent taking in the flora of alternative coolness.
And don't miss the game art post it war as can be seen on many windows around Paris.

Uberkampf and Montparnasse are usually good streets to find this type of art.

One of my favorites which I would get if I could. You can find it here.