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We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Victor Castillo
We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Victor Castillo
We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Victor Castillo
We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Victor Castillo
We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Victor Castillo
We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting | Oil And Acrylic Painting in Paintings by Victor Castillo

Created and Sold by Victor Castillo

Victor Castillo

We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting

Featured In Los Angeles, CA

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Acrylic on canvas, inspired by vintage animations

Each panel is 80 x 110 inches or 80 x 120 inches

Installation view shows four paintings together, each is sold separately

"In a quadtych installation of wall-sized paintings, Castillo seamlessly appropriates Technicolor imagery and characters from the classic animation studios Van Beuren and Walt Disney, notably from the Silly Symphony series produced in the 1930s. Through a process of collaging collected images, mixing backgrounds and comic characters to create new compositions and situations, Castillo reconstructs the given narratives like a puzzle, to formulate his distinctive style of storytelling with a punch line. Castillo adds to the meaning of each scene with an ongoing theme of resistance. 'The subjects are fighting back,' he says."

Item We Were All To Be Kings wall-size painting
Created by Victor Castillo
As seen in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Victor Castillo
Meet the Creator
Wescover creator since 2020
Victor executes brilliant application of color and light ... A real magical mystery tour by a truly gifted artist. —Val Kilmer

Victor Castillo is an international artist living and working in Los Angeles. He was born in Santiago, Chile in 1973, where he was part of an independent artist collective, and he lived in Barcelona, Spain, where he dedicated and established himself as a painter before moving to the United States in 2010.

A prolific self-taught painter who adeptly fuses popular culture references with old master painting, Victor is connected with the low-brow and Pop Surrealism scene that has its roots in California in addition to the global New Contemporary Art and Urban Art movements.

Victor is known for telling stories in his paintings. As if it were a contemporary chronicle, his work often appropriates the narrative logic of illustrations for children’s stories, and the aesthetics of classic animations, to present us with humorous fables about human nature and the state of society.