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Johnny Romeo

High Noon

Name: High Noon - Harvey Galleries
SKU: H36014
Price: 6500.00 AUD
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SKU: H36014

Acrylic and Oil on Canvas

103 x 103 cm Framed

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Even the most cold-hearted assassins need the love of a loyal dog. In High Noon, Johnny Romeo cheekily reimagines Keanu Reeves’ iconic hitman ‘John Wick’ as a modern-day Renaissance man donning a classic Tudor collar and tunic, whose thirst for vengeance is matched only by his affection for his adoring dog. Stoic and poised, Romeo’s Technicolour rendition of John Wick masterfully channels the drama and intensity of Baroque noble portraiture with the life-affirming optimism of the artist’s distinct Kitsch Pop style, capturing the complex essence of a battle-worn gunslinger picking himself back up and reinventing himself to exact payback for the murder of his beloved first dog Daisy. The symbiotic bond between John Wick and his pit bull is rooted in loyalty and loss, love and violence. While the dog gazes up in devotion, Wick looks outward, unflinching and calm, ready to unleash carnage on a cruel world that would dare to kill his only source of solace and love again. Romeo riffs on this sentiment further through the word assemblage ‘Double Pup Up’, a reference to his two dogs in the first ‘John Wick’ instalment, and Wick ‘doubling up’ on his affection for his new pit bull after the brutal loss of his first dog. Echoing the lone-wolf resilience of Gary Cooper’s country-western classic ‘High Noon’ (1952), the title speaks to the notion of rebirth through struggle, conceptually linking John Wick and ‘High Noon’s’ Will Kane as kindred spirits facing overwhelming odds in their lonely quest for revenge. Behind his velvet collar and controlled composure lies the contradiction that defines Wick himself, a cold-blooded assassin whose tenderness for his dog is wrapped in danger, and whose noble belief in justice is shadowed by violence.

H36014 High Noon, 2025

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About Johnny Romeo

Johnny Romeo is an internationally acclaimed Australian painter. Considered Australia’s leading Pop artist, Romeo is spearheading the global Neo-Expressionist Pop movement with his electrifying collision of rock’n’roll swagger, comic book aesthetics and street art. Described by GQ Magazine Australia as ‘part punk, part pop’, Romeo’s Kitsch Pop works are explosive sugar rushes of Technicolour imagery and urban grittiness that are turning heads worldwide.