PURE EVIL (English 1968) Rare ‘Charlie Brown Fword’ (juxtaposition of the Ford car company commercial logo) Very Rare
RARE- Two coloured hand pulled screenprint on white substrate with orange detail on thick wove cardboard paper
Title : Fword (juxtaposition of the Ford car company commercial logo) Very Rare
From : The Car Boot Series, Stencil by Pure Evil aka Charles Uzzell-Edwards
Printed – Silk Screen Print on heavy cardboard paper,
Edition : limited edition print, numbered 90/100.
Print size : 35 x 50 cm.
Signed - with Pure Evils ‘vampire bunny’ Moniker in pencil
Limited Edition - marked as 90/100,
Framed – unframed,
Condition – In Very good Stored Condition for age, please look at the images closely as these form part of the description.
Provenance – There is a small amount of historical paperwork included in the sale to build up your provenance.
Genre - See my other street, subversive, Graffiti and popular modern Brit PoP Art pieces in this auction.
About the Art and the Artist
‘Fword’ Charlie Brown with Charles Uzzell-Edwards iconic trademark of two dripping tears is a 1/1 block (Orange detail on a white substrate) with a freehand tagged Vampire Bunny moniker in pencil.
Fword (is a juxtaposition of the Ford car company commercial logo) and Americas favourite lovable, who can’t do anything wrong TV character Charlie Brown.
Not often seen on the market ‘Charlie Brown’ in an iconic take on middle America and shows a rebellious side to usually well-mannered Charlie Brown.
The style of Pure Evil is certainly distinctive, leading to the growth of his brand worldwide. Using primarily graffiti and stencil, the work of Pure Evil is often bright and colourful, while including satirical and political overtones that mock popular culture.
Pure Evil is the moniker for Welsh born Street artist, Charles Uzzell-Edwards, who studied fashion and graphics in London. Moving to the West Coast of the US in the early 90’s, he found inspiration in the graffiti and skate culture and became heavily involved in the electronic music scene. Pure Evil’s first street works were in California, where he would paint anti Bush slogans on roadsides and Murderers on gun stores.
Returning to London, his street work continued with a new graffiti tag that was to become his iconic signature. Pure Evil’s infamous Vampire Bunny is the result of a recurring childhood nightmare (nightmares also being a major theme in his work).
Pure Evil soon fell in with the people behind Banksy’s Santa’s Ghetto and started to produce new prints and paintings alongside his street work.
Pure evil explores the darker side of pop culture - alongside his iconic dripping tear that features on most of his paintings bringing an uncomfortable edge to even the most cheerful of images
His subjects also often focus on the unsung or troubled aspect of celebrities - you’ll find Sharon Tate - famously murdered by Charles Manson, alongside Audrey Hepburn celebrated for her work against the Nazis in WW2 and members of the infamous 27 club such as the Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, who tragically was found dead in a swimming pool in 1969.
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