Ron English was born in Houston, Texas in 1960 and now lives and works in New Jersey. Known as the “father of Street Art”, he explores popular imagery and contemporary communication. “I belong to the second generation of those who followed the Pop Art School of the 60s. And I think I'm right, thinking about my works, when I say that New Pop should always be committed to spreading social messages. An artist of POPaganda, his brand, able to adapt to multiple environments, from suburban bridges to elegant gallery spaces without losing its effect, he began by modifying billboards, desecrating them and achieving his goal, which is to fight globalization through globalization itself. He forces people to think: he replaces the word Camel with the word Cancer. Against Apple that advertises the Mac: next to the slogan Think Different he puts the face of Charles Manson, the bloodthirsty madman of the Bel Air massacre. Against George W. Bush: on the poster with the phrase New World Order, pronounced in reference to the Gulf War, he superimposes a very personal reworking of Pablo Picasso's Guernica crowded with Walt Disney characters. "An icon. And Pop Art has always been nourished by icons. Anyone who observes Picasso's fresco thinks of war: absolute, definitive, iconic. In my case, revisiting the masterpiece exhibited at the Reina Sofia in Madrid (I have made 60, each different from the other) I tell of conflicts of power: Walt Disney cartoons fighting against Warner Bros. "cartoons", for example. Or Snoopy, in the guise of the Red Baron, who on board a plane of the Fascist Legionary Aviation unleashes a war against the other Peanuts". Ron English dubbed himself in an episode of The Simpsons entitled Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart (season 23 episode 15)