Muralist, painter, sculptor, and sticker artist Kenny Scharf is best known for his fantastical large-scale paintings of anthropomorphic animals and imagined creatures. Though his brightly colored imagery is generally playful, he has remarked that darker themes exist beneath the surface of his works, visible upon closer inspection. Scharf was a part of the 1980’s East Village Art movement, along with his good friend and fellow street artist Keith Haring. His influences range from 20th-century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, the latter reflected in his appropriation of cartoon characters from television shows like the Flintstones and Jetsons.