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‘Popaganda’ artist Ron English creates collection reimagining Picasso’s Guernica

American painter Ron English, nicknamed the “godfather of street art”, has created two multi-media artworks reimagining Picasso’s Guernica.

English has inserted his own imagery, characters and visual references into Picasso’s template in two separate parodies, one focused around Star Wars and another called Punk Skunk.

The 64-year-old, whose art explores

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