Malika Favre - an outstanding Pop Artist of the present - a review of her work and style

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Once in a while, an artist appears on the scene that has that Wow! factor.

I must admit that I do have a fondness for Pop art, more specifically the Roy Lichtenstein / Andy Warhol type of style.

So, when I came by Malika Favre's art on Pintrest, immediately I was drawn to it.

Pop type illustration and art is something I like to do and I endured the wrath of a Royal Academy trained art teacher at school art classes who couldn't handle me using black, bold lines to define shapes. I still do when it suits the work.

To me, Pop Art is about impact and simplicity.

Many years ago, I was looking at the work of Brian Cook, a British artist of the 1930's who did advertising posters for the railway companies, his work was in colour, but the colour printing of that time was defined by the primitive colour printing processes of that time - solid colours and 8 colours usually.

Brian Cook developed a radical 'colour impact' style, as did others of the time such as E.MacKnight Kaufer, who used colours, boldly too on advertising posters.

Marika's art is bold, colourful and economic, its beauty is its simple and economic use of line and form, like a good dish from a Chef it is never 'over egged' or over worked.

The work uses clever geometry, use of colour and use of line that suggests shape to the eye and the brain, coupled with great original ideas. Her work scores top marks on every front.

She is not 'stuck' in a particular theme either, taking on fashion, book cover illustration work and more, rather than some artists who get a hit piece and milk the style of it dry.

You can choose any number of landmark artists such as Picasso, Monet, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol who produced 'signature' style art. Marika Favre is up there with them. Like those I mentioned, they came up with 'signature' styles of work, she is one of the newer examples of what is great and 'signature'.

Sometimes the most simple of things are the best, a few simple ingredients used by a Chef can make a great meal, the same goes for Marika Favre's work, simple lines, mostly block colours, clever use of line and great draughtsmanship, coupled with great ideas.

By simple, these works likely take a lot of time to achieve and make look 'simple,' but it is more than that, it is the great ideas in the mind of the artist which translate onto paper or whatever medium you apply it too. Like a musician, you might have a signature sound, but unless you have great musical ideas, it sounds samey.

I find Marika's work is refreshing and exciting, it is new, fresh and wonderful!