The painter who rebelled against abstract expressionism: Who is Josh Agle?

Pop Art, which is a result of the radical changes that took place, especially after the Second World War, is one of the most extraordinary art movements among modern art movements. It is the expression of a rebellion against abstract expressionism, which was the accepted and increasingly routinized art movement of the period in which it emerged; It can even be said that it is the antithesis of this art movement.

Josh Agle (born August 31, 1962) is an American artist, better known by the nickname Shag. Josh Agle was born August 31, 1962, the first of nine children in Sierra Madre, California. He spent his early childhood in Hawaii, and later moved with his family to Los Angeles. While Agle was attending high school, his family moved to Utah. In the mid-1980s, he returned to California, to study economics and architecture at California State University, Long Beach.

Pop Art is known as an art movement that gravitates toward the materialistic reality of daily life and popular culture originating from people's visual tastes such as television, magazines, and humor magazines. The characteristic of this movement is to describe the daily consumption of goods of the industrial society with the techniques of the mass communication age. Such objects are depicted in isolation from their surroundings, exaggerated, and often using graphic novels or advertising techniques. Topics can be very different.

Born in 1962, Josh Agle is also known by the nickname Shag, which is a combination of the last syllable of his name and the first syllable of his last name. He paints paintings reminiscent of 1960s advertising illustrations, Disney animations, and Bossa Nova album covers. Showing businessmen and businesswomen in tight suits drinking martinis, Shag's paintings describe the world of elite urban people.

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