Street art : Pegasus

                                                                     Street art :

Pegasus is the pseudonym and signature of a North London street artist.

The artist, born in 1988 is originally from Chicago but better known for his work in England. His artworks play with popular culture’s most recognizable icons, including Marilyn Monroe, JFK , Amy Winehouse and Lucile Ball , and sometimes are iconic or controversial paintings. The artist stated that his influences includes « the genius Andy Warhol ». As well as designing the front cover of the publication Encyclopedia Madonnica, Pegasus is featured in two books published in 2013. Pegasus held his first solo show at Faith INC. Gallery, London on Saturday 6 december 2014. The second solo show was an exhibition entitled «  Gods and Monsters », which ran from July 2016 to December 2016 at London’s Faith INC. Gallery, Los Angeles’ Artist’s Corner and Cheshire’ Attitude Gallery.

In October 2018, his 3rd solo exhibition called «  Neon nights » was attended by Jessie Wallace, Judge Rinder, Alan Carr. All his paintings sold out on the opening night . Pegasus gave an interview on London Live before the opening of the show.

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In this artwork, we can see an angel, it’s a woman. She is wearing a red dress with white dots. The woman has got tattoos and her wigns refer to the flag of England. There are several types of this work like one that is black and white.

In this one, we can see the woman looking at the sky and her arms are open, she has no legs . In another work, the woman has got dress with heels.

The artist signs each of his works with his name and a logo of a horse with wings.

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To conclude, I like his works because for the first, the one with the woman who has wings with the colors of the English flag, I find that it is a way of referring to his country and it shows that he is proud of his country.

We can also notice that amoung his works, there are only women that represented. We can perhaps deduce that he wants to send a message through this, that the artist support women

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