Burton Morris

Burton Morris is a well-known American contemporary artist. His pop art works are similar to those of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. The majority of his works are extremely colorful paintings that have the medium of either silkscreen or acrylic paint on a canvas. As with all modern art, his work is somewhere between the two realms of concrete and abstract. Burton Morris’s specific style is one that is full of what appears to be cartoonist drawings with an emphasis on color. A common element that is within several of his projects is a heart; one painting featured a heart-shaped Earth at its center. He has done entire exhibitions on the coke bottle, where he painted several designs of different bottles as they changed throughout the years. One of Burton Morris's most famous pieces is a male photographer facing the viewer as his camera flash goes off, as if he is taking a picture of the audience. (Artist website)