Blue Lily: Pop Elegance with a Subversive Twist

Medium: Mixed Media on Wood
Size: 4ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2025
Collection: Pop Art

Blue Lily (2025) is part of my Pop Art Collection, where I explore the tension between seductive surface and layered commentary. This 48 x 48 inch acrylic on canvas presents the lily — a symbol often associated with purity and delicacy — through the bold, flattened lens of pop aesthetics.

Rendered in vivid, almost synthetic blues against a vibrant, contrasting background, the lily in this work becomes both icon and critique. The flower’s delicate edges are exaggerated into sharp, graphic outlines, its elegance veiled beneath a playful, commercial sheen.

In spirit, Blue Lily echoes the works of Roy Lichtenstein, whose comic-inspired florals and portraits straddle the line between celebration and satire. Like Lichtenstein, I appropriate the visual language of advertising and mass media, but beneath the vibrant polish, Blue Lily offers a subtle interrogation of beauty as commodity.

This is not a lily found in nature; it is a lily refracted through screens, packaging, and the hyper-color saturation of the digital age. It seduces the eye while teasing the viewer to look beneath the surface — to question what happens when delicate forms are turned into decorative symbols.

As part of my Pop Art Collection, Blue Lily celebrates the allure of surface while disrupting it — offering a nod to Pop’s playfulness, with a subversive undertone of critique.