'Rub-A-Dub Ridge' Art Print by Vertigo Artography | Surreal Retro Mountain Hiking Wilderness Cleaning Environment Outdoor Adventure Humour Print

'Rub-A-Dub Ridge' Art Print by Vertigo Artography

Rub-A-Dub Ridge is a perfectly timed, magnificently scaled and deeply satisfying surreal collage art print that takes the great, sweeping grandeur of the American wilderness and introduces, without warning or apology, a yellow sponge. Set against the warm, saturated palette of a 1960s National Park brochure or vintage hiking poster, the golden age of the great outdoors, when people wore plaid and hats and stood at viewpoints and looked at things properly, a spectacular mountain landscape unfolds in vivid, abundant detail: pine forested slopes in deep green and amber rolling upward toward snowcapped peaks against a brilliant turquoise sky, the kind of wilderness that appears on trail guides and travel posters and makes people immediately want to put on boots and go somewhere with no signal.

In the foreground, two figures stand at a viewpoint, seen from behind, taking in the view with the quiet appreciation of people who have walked a long way to stand exactly here, a woman in a red top and plaid trousers, a man in a plaid shirt and brown hat, the universal 1960s hiking couple, dressed correctly, present fully, completely unaware of what is happening above them.

Above them, entering the frame from the upper left with the calm, matter of fact authority of someone who has assessed the situation and brought the right equipment, is a giant hand holding a yellow sponge covered in white soapy foam scrubbing the mountain peaks with the focused, domestic efficiency of someone cleaning a worktop. The soapy foam spreads across the mountain tops where the snow should be, white, foamy, indistinguishable from a glacier at first glance and revealed, on closer inspection, as washing up foam applied by a hand the size of a mountain range. The mountains are being cleaned. The sponge is doing its job. The hikers below are having a lovely time.

The environmental wit of the piece is its deepest quality, this is an artwork about cleaning up, about restoration, about the quietly absurd idea that the wilderness, like everything else, occasionally needs someone to roll up their sleeves and give it a proper scrub. The deadpan domestic scale of the solution against the epic natural scale of the problem is the joke and the truth simultaneously. As demand grows for retro hiking art, mountain landscape prints, outdoor adventure posters and environmental humour art, Rub-A-Dub Ridge sits at the perfect intersection of vintage wilderness nostalgia, surrealist wit and the deeply satisfying observation that sometimes the answer to a very large problem is a very good sponge.

Perfect for living rooms, home offices, kitchens, outdoor enthusiasts, hikers, campers, mountain lovers, environmental advocates, eclectic interiors, creative studios and any wall that has ever looked at a mountain and thought: that could do with a clean.

Specifications

• All art prints are gallery quality Giclée printed.
• Printed on 200gsm archival matt paper using the finest archival inks.
• Print has a white border around the image.
• Print is titled at the base of the image with signature.
• Sizes specified are inclusive of the overall paper dimensions, including the white border.
• Art print does not include frame.
• Due to different screen configurations, the colour of the purchased print may slightly vary to what you see on your computer.
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All A3 (equivalent ) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing envelope or tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
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