Cris Jhonson - Icon Under Attack

Cris Jhonson is a contemporary artist who operates anonymously, choosing to withdraw from traditional exhibition circuits to focus solely on the work. His visual language is inspired by urban aesthetics and pop culture, featuring cartoon characters and dynamic shapes in vivid colors.
In this series, the artist works on iconic canvases from the history of classical art, creating a direct dialogue between the past and the present. Anonymity becomes an integral part of the project, reinforcing a vision of art that is free, independent, and non-institutional.
Technique: acrylic painting, mixed media
Measurements: 70x50cm
The canvas is shipped mounted on a wooden frame, frame not included.
Cris Jhonson is a contemporary artist who develops a visual language inspired by urban aesthetics and pop culture, reinterpreting them through a personal imaginary made up of cartoon characters, hybrid creatures, and symbolic figures with intense colors.
His work originates outside traditional exhibition circuits and focuses on an idea of free, direct, accessible art, where the street represents a conceptual reference rather than a physical place. His works are designed to engage with urban space and collective imagination, blending irony, energy, and a strong visual component.
In this series, Jhonson intervenes on iconic paintings from the history of classical art, creating a deliberately stark contrast between the solemnity of the original image and its contemporary, instinctive, and colorful mark. The result is a visual tension that questions the concept of the untouchability of historical art, bringing it back into an current and urban dimension.
The compositions are distinguished by:
bold and vibrant colors
dynamic forms
an aesthetic that evokes the language of contemporary street culture
These works are not born as a nostalgic citation, but as visual reappropriation, where the past becomes a living surface on which to build new meanings.
Cris Jhonson's work expresses a free and non-institutional vision of art, capable of uniting classical references and urban sensibility in a direct dialogue with the present.