Mark Flood: Doing It His Own Way

One of the byproducts of the Occupy movement has been the large-scale reemergence of the art style of the altered image, in which cultured icons like Ronald McDonald, that guy from the board game Monopoly and V from V for Vendetta have been fit with a frown and a witty slogan. While most of this latest round of photo manipulation art has been the preserve of the tech savvy ‘photographers’, established artists have used the same technique for decades. Andy Warhol and his pop artist contemporaries of the 1960’s, for instance, trod this path before.