Dr. Dave's original drawings are now available to purchase from the Oil Art Advisory gallery
During the pandemic lockdown of 2020/2021, while most of us were grappling with how to fill an endless stretch of free time, Dave Colton took a different approach. Instead of simply wondering what to do, he channeled his creativity into crafting a series of humorous, hand-drawn pastiches-an endeavor that would coalesce into a book.
Anarchy in the Art Gallery is a bold, hilarious, and wildly imaginative illustrated book that rewrites Western art and cultural history with a playful twist. Time and space are no boundaries in this reimagined journey, where the familiar becomes fantastically unexpected.
Picture Lowry venturing into science fiction, Jane Austen throwing punches in a cage fight, Magritte nervously taking a driving test, and Anne Hathaway stepping into the spotlight as the real genius behind Shakespeare's plays. Every page is a collision of worlds, where characters, ideas, and events are plucked from their original contexts and reassembled in delightfully unpredictable ways.
Two Bruegel peasants pull off a clock heist from a Dali painting, a tourist pedals leisurely through Van Gogh's cornfield, and Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon splash into Monet's waterlily pond. Art, literature, philosophy, and pop culture all come together in a riotous mashup of creativity.
Fresh, funny, and unapologetically irreverent, Anarchy in the Art Gallery turns our cultural history on its head and Dave's original drawings, beautifully mounted and framed under glass, are now available to purchase from the Oil Art Advisory Gallery.
Dr. Dave has put his PhD in contemporary art philosophy to good use and some of the joke references everyone will know, but if not, the fun is finding the original to unearth the punchline!
CAST & CREW for ANARCHY IN THE ART GALLERY
Adolf Hitler, Albert Camus, Alexander Dumas, Andy Goldsworthy, Andy Warhol, Anne Hathaway, Barbara Cartland, Beatrix Potter, Carl Jung, Caspar David Friedrich, Celebes, Christo, Claude Monet, David Bowie, D. H. Lawrence, Erwin Schrödinger, Frank Sinatra, Friedrich Nietzsche,
George Orwell, Gertrude Stein, Gustav Klimt, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, Hieronymus Bosch, Immanuel Kant, Infanta Margarita Teresa, Jane Austen, Jean Genet, Jeff Koons, J. M. Whistler, John Cage, Karl Marx, Ken Barlow, King Nebuchadnezzar, King Oedipus, Leonardo Da Vinci, Lisa del Giocondo, L. S. Lowry, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Marcel Duchamp, Marcelle Lender, Marcel Marceau, Mary Poppins, Mary Shelley, Max Ernst, Orville the Duck, Otto Dix, Pablo Picasso, Pieter Breugel the Elder, Piet Mondrian, Pope Innocent X, Rene Magritte, Rudolph Nureyev, Salvador Dali, Sandro Botticelli, Sigmund Freud, Sisyphus, Sylvia von Harden, The de Groot family, The Green Lady, The Jolly Green Giant, Urizen, Vaslav Nijinsky, Venus, Vincent Van Gogh, Vladimir Tretchikoff, William Blake, William Shakespeare, and the host of extra characters that feature in the drawings.
Beside the Anarchy in the Art Gallery drawings, which all appeared in the book, we also have some works which pre or postdate them.
SERIES: TALES FROM THE OFFICE
This is an earlier collection of drawings produced by Dave, and helped formulate the idea to create a group of drawings with a coherent narrative, which in turn, lead to the development of Anarchy in the Art Gallery.
SERIES: ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR
Dave's most recent series, Anything can happen in the Next Half Hour, is a surreal journey through 1960s and 70s children's television nostalgia. The drawings are not limited by time or space; characters, situations and ideas are taken out of context and mixed to create new stories and new possibilities.
We have 12 original drawings in this series which may feature in a future book.
CAST & CREW for ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN IN THE NEXT HALF HOUR
Andy Pandy, Alex and his Droogs, Aqua Marina, Batman and Robin, Bill, Ben and Little Weed, Brains from Thunderbirds, Bungle, Geoffrey, George and Zippy from Rainbow, Clarence the Cross-eyed Lion, Doctor Marsh Tracy from Daktari, Mike Mercury and Supercar, Mr Benn, Robert the Robot, Robinson Crusoe, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo and Sonny Hammond, Steve Zodiac and Venus, The Aquaphibians, and the cast of the Magic Roundabout.
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