Hariton Pushwagner is the artist pseudonym of Terje Brofos (born in May 1940), a Norwegian

Norway

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 pop art

Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

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Biography

Pushwagner finished his education at the State's School of Art and Design of Oslo in 1959. He states that he quit drawing for a period after his studies, and that he struggled for several years to find his personal style.

Pushwagner describes himself as a spiritual student of Norwegian author Axel Jensen

Axel Jensen

Axel Buchardt Jensen was a Norwegian author. From 1957 until 2002 he published both fiction and non-fiction texts which include novels, poems, essays, a biography, manuscripts for cartoons and animated films....

, whom he met in 1968. He has illustrated Jensen's book Og resten står skrivd i stjernene/And the Rest is Writ(ten) in the Stars (1995)

Pushwagner won back the rights to his drawings from Morten Dreyer in Oslo Courthouse 10.29.2009.

External links

• Pushwagner homepage
• Pushwagner infopage
• Axel Jensen's Homepage