Burgerman Art Style

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Jon Burgerman is a famous British artist who does contemporary art, design, and illustration. “He is known as the leading figure in a popular “Doodle” art style” (“Jon Burgerman”). However, he can also create multiple types of art rather than just his cartoon pieces.
Jon was born in Birmingham, England in 1979. He is the middle child in his family. Unfortunately, he does not reveal the actual date of his birth or much information about his personal or family life. Before he attended a University, he took a year off called “a foundation year” to help him decide what he wanted to study in school. He was torn between graphic design and fine art. He ended up studying Fine Art and attended Nottingham Trent University. He graduated in 2001. During …show more content…

“His work is placed between fine art, urban art, and pop-culture, using humour to reference and question his contemporary milieu” (Essmaker). Burgerman, fortunately, was a part of a secret project called The Underbelly Project. This was a unfinished and unused subway station, four levels underneath the city of New York. The picked artists were secretly escorted there and had to stay there for one full night. These artists were to paint and leave their mark in the abandoned station. The secret station is somewhere where the public is not able to see it and to get to it one would have to break the law and slip into the tunnel of the subway unnoticed. However, many have tried and failed and ended up getting arrested trying to visit this place of …show more content…

His mother was a very impactful influence in Burgerman’s life. She was the only one, other than Jon, in his family who took the interest in creating art. Before his brother was born they had a studio in the spare room. Burgerman and his mother were constantly in the studio drawing and painting. However, as talented as his mother was, she was never an artist; she only studied art in school and hung her artwork up around the house. Ted Allen, Burgerman’s foundation teacher, was also an influence to Jon. The advice that Allen gave to Jon, that really stuck with his, was “You should never follow the trends. You can’t copy anything. If something is popular, there’s no point in trying to join in. When you do that, you’ll always be behind, following in the footsteps of others. The only thing you can do as an artist is make your own work and, if you’re lucky, eventually the interest will swing around to you”

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