2 porcelain fish "Deeply in Love I + II" in the set, by Romero Britto

About Romero Britto
Romero Britto: Always the sun in the heart

with its multicolored cheerful pictures and sculptures, the Brazilian artist, born in 1963, fulfills the life of many of his collectors with joy and hope. Celebrities like Steffi Graf and André Agassi can count Romero Britto as well as his customers as actors and Kennedy clan or Barack Obama. No wonder, because the works of the pop art artist follow the pioneers of this style, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Pop art developed as a counterpoint to the abstract expressionism of the post-war period in the early 1960s and used the elements of everyday life and the simple formal language of the comic. The everyday life is raised to the work of art.

With black -framed colored surfaces, Romero Britto stylizes the image topic of precise figures that live without deep illusion or plasticity through its colorful color and directly address the feelings of the viewer. It designs the color areas with geometric patterns such as lines, circles and hatching. How to keep the characteristics of a comic strip and tell every viewer imaginative stories.

Like no other artist, Britto cooperates with influential brands such as Audi, BMW, absolute vodka, Apple, Pepsi and Disney. The life -affirming message of his playful pictures helps the artist to work with many foundations, which he founded with the 2007 "Britto Foundation". Britto's works are traded today for several 10,000 euros.