'Up your mouth' Art Print by Vertigo Artography.
Up Your Mouth is a darkly funny, razor sharp and completely original surrealist artwork that operates on two levels simultaneously and is more brilliant for it. On a terracotta marble bathroom surface sits a blue toothbrush, photorealistic, completely ordinary. Above it, a red and white toothpaste tube hovers, dispensing. The most mundane morning ritual imaginable
And then the flick. Every toothpaste advertisement ends the same way, the paste applied to the brush, and that signature little curl at the tip, that tiny flourish that signals freshness, cleanliness, the completion of the ritual, the promise of a perfect smile. It is one of the most recognisable visual conventions in advertising history, repeated so many times across so many decades that it has become completely invisible until now.
Because the flick, here, is a middle finger. A tiny human arm and hand emerges from the bristles, perfectly proportioned, photorealistic, completely committed and executes the flick with the precision of someone who has watched every toothpaste commercial ever made and has a very specific response to all of them. The advertising parody is exact. The media satire is surgical. The middle finger is the punchline and it only lands this perfectly because the setup is so completely, faithfully faithful to the original.
The photorealistic rendering is what makes this piece genuinely extraordinary, this is not a cartoon, not a sketch, not an illustration. Everything is rendered with complete seriousness and technical precision, which makes the middle finger ten times funnier, ten times more pointed and ten times more effective as a piece of art. The gesture is enormous. The hand is tiny. The toothbrush is completely unbothered. The blue of the brush handle against the warm terracotta marble creates a colour palette that is bold, clean and immediately striking, the kind of image that reads across a room, earns a double take and makes everyone who sees it immediately want to know where it came from.
This piece sits at the perfect intersection of every trend dominating bathroom art, dark humour wall art and surrealist home decor right now. Funny bathroom art is one of the fastest growing search categories in home decor, driven by a generation that sees no reason why the bathroom wall should be boring when every other room gets to have a personality. Dental and oral hygiene humour, the universal shared experience of the morning routine, the toothbrush, the toothpaste, the ritual that everyone does and nobody particularly enjoys, is a rich and largely untapped vein of relatable comedy art. Rude art and dark humour prints are firmly embedded in the maximalist home decor movement, beloved by buyers who want their walls to reflect their actual personality rather than a curated, sanitised version of it. Surrealist art, the collision of the ordinary and the impossible, the domestic and the absurd is experiencing a significant resurgence across gallery walls, creative studios and eclectic interiors.
Up Your Mouth is the perfect piece for dark humour devotees, bathroom art collectors, dental professionals with a sense of humour, dentists and dental hygienists who want something on their waiting room wall that makes patients smile before they even sit down, surrealist art enthusiasts, rude art fans, anti establishment collectors, funny gift seekers and anyone searching for funny bathroom prints, rude wall art, toothbrush art, dental humour art or a unique gift that is sharp, original, completely unexpected and absolutely, permanently hilarious.
For bathrooms, dental waiting rooms, dental surgeries, creative studios, dorm rooms, home offices, gallery walls and any space that has the confidence to hang something that makes people stop, laugh out loud and immediately want to send a photo to their group chat.
Specifications
• All art prints are gallery quality Giclée printed.
• Printed on 200gsm archival matt paper using the finest archival inks.
• Print has a white border around the image.
• Print is titled at the base of the image with signature.
• Sizes specified are inclusive of the overall paper dimensions, including the white border.
• Art print does not include frame.
• Due to different screen configurations, the colour of the purchased print may slightly vary to what you see on your computer.
Packaging
When you purchase any of our original artworks you can be assured that all packaging is either recyclable or biodegradable using the most ethical means in line with our commitment to 100% carbon neutral sustainability.
All A3 (equivalent variants) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing envelope or tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
All A2/A1/A0 (equivalent variants) art prints are shipped in a firm recyclable cardboard mailing tube and marked - DO NOT BEND.
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