50 x 70 cm
Badass Mickey
Badass Mickey
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Product Details:
- Title: Badass Mickey
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year created: 2021
- Dimensions: 50 x 70 cm x 2 cm | 20" x 27" inches
- Style: Pop Art, Graffiti Art
- Signature: Signed by the artist on reverse
- Condition: 1/1 Original painting
- Medium: Acrylic, spray paint, epoxy on canvas
- Framing: Unframed original artwork on canvas, ready to hang
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
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✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the Artwork:
Badass Mickey is an original Mickey Mouse Pop Art painting by Kristin Kossi, presenting the familiar pop-culture icon with an unexpected rebellious attitude. With Mickey raising his middle finger, the work disrupts the character’s traditionally cheerful image and transforms him into a symbol of defiance, individuality and unapologetic self-expression.
Kossi’s distinctive urban visual language combines bold color with graffiti and street-art influences, giving the composition a raw, energetic quality. The contrast between an instantly recognizable cultural icon and the provocative gesture creates the humor and tension at the heart of the work.
Badass Mickey plays with our expectations of familiar imagery while exploring rebellion and the freedom to reject convention. Irreverent, humorous and deliberately provocative, the painting reflects Kossi’s longstanding approach to Pop Art — taking icons embedded in collective memory and placing them into unexpected contemporary narratives.
A bold statement about individuality, attitude and the freedom to break the rules.
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Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Free shipping included. Shipping usually takes 3 to 8 days. Double bubble wrapped inside cardboard box. Return is possible within 14 day withdrawal period, starting on the day you receive the creation.
Guaranty
Guaranty
Original work delivered with a certificate of authenticity by Kristin Kossi.
My work explores freedom in its many forms through pop culture, ambition, nature and the choices that shape the way we live. In my Pop Art, familiar characters and cultural symbols become a language for exploring success, money, love, independence and the contradictions of contemporary life. Icons such as Scrooge McDuck, Mr. Monopoly, Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson are removed from their familiar narratives and placed into new ones sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, but always reflecting something about the world we live in and what we choose to value. Alongside this, my abstract work has evolved through a closer connection to nature. Living and working between wild landscapes in South Africa has shifted my perspective from the symbols of success toward something more elemental — land, time, movement, solitude and the freedom that comes from living closer to nature. What connects these seemingly different bodies of work is a continuing search for freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to question. Freedom to change. And ultimately, freedom to live life on your own terms. I believe art can shift perspective. For me, creativity is not only a way of making images, but a way of understanding life — and continually redefining what truly matters.