8/16/2023 0 Comments Olly moss art![]() ![]() So obsessively, for months, I drew characters from the side and cut them out of black paper using powerful industrial lasers. There’s also an introduction written by Moss himself where he talks about how he came up with this idea and how he created the original pieces, which were all laser-cut from black paper. However, a foreword written by director Duncan Jones talks amusingly about how he became acquainted with Moss’ work. Part of the fun is testing your geeky knowledge to find out if you can name them all. The silhouette images are void of any sort of title or text to indicate who you’re looking at. The book doesn’t have a lot of written words. The book is a coffee table piece, something that people will pick up when they come to your house and won’t be able to put down until they’ve named every single pop culture icon inside. It’s simply a very cool collection of Moss’ silhouettes that he displayed in a show at the famed Gallery 1988. It doesn’t have any insightful wisdom about pop culture or the way art is created. Make no mistake, this isn’t a book about art. Since Moss is a student of pop culture, he set out to create a collection of silhouettes based upon pop culture icons. It’s crazy how such a simple piece of art, cut-out black paper, can resemble a person so specifically. ![]() If you’ve been to Disneyland, there’s a place on Main Street where you can get your silhouette cut out by a skilled artist. A sample of Moss’s minimalist designs can be seen in the Black Widow poster, to the right, which Moss was commissioned to make for Mondo’s ‘Avengers’ series. The book is called ‘Silhouettes from Popular Culture’. One of Mondo’s mainstays for creating original, minimalist poster art for movies is artist Olly Moss. ![]() I find myself specifically drawn to original movie art created by poster boutiques like Mondo. As many of you know, I’m a huge fan of movie posters. ![]()
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