“Changes motivate me. In New York I changed the theme: goodbye to mythological figures and a search for man. North America is such a powerful and artificial world that by contrast man acquires prominence.”
From his residence in the United States between 1965 and 1967, de la Vega consolidates its definitive break towards mass culture.
His painting abandons oil and adopts flat acrylic, clean outlines, and psychedelic inks that characterize the Pop period of the Works of Jorge de la Vega, influenced by commercial graphic design, comics and the New York imaginary.
