Artwork Description
The End of the End- Mini, Part of the True Facts Mini Multiple Series Original Hand-Painted Multiple (HPM) on Wood Cradled Panel ready to hang by Denial Graffiti Street Artist Modern Pop Art.
2020 Signed & Numbered HPM Limited Edition of 20 Artwork Size 24x36
"My work speaks of impending doom and a lot of crass sinister themes, but that should not mean I desire this to happen at all. I hope my work would suggest only the opposite: to show the ridiculousness of it all and how we may find better solutions for the future." -Denial
The End of the End Mini by Denial: Love, Apocalypse, and Satire in Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork
The End of the End Mini is a 2020 hand-painted multiple by Canadian artist Denial, known for his fusion of satire, iconography, and subversive wit. Created as part of the True Facts Mini Multiple Series, this piece measures 24 x 36 inches and is produced on a wood cradled panel, ready to hang. Each edition in the set is an original HPM—hand-painted multiple—offering unique brushwork and embellishment over a consistent base print. Limited to 20 signed and numbered pieces, the work presents a silhouetted couple locked in a romantic embrace within a car as they overlook a mushroom cloud detonating in the distance. The scene closes with a stylized handwritten caption that simply reads The End, suggesting finality with a mix of tragedy and humor. This darkly comic juxtaposition is a hallmark of Denial’s work, perfectly situated within the visual terrain of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork.
Nuclear Romance and Comedic Catastrophe
The imagery in The End of the End Mini plays with retro cartoon styling and Cold War era fears, placing symbols of youthful romance—vintage cars, scenic overlooks, date-night silhouettes—alongside the icon of global annihilation: the mushroom cloud. The bomb blast, rendered in vivid oranges and yellows, contrasts with the blue sky and lush green horizon, creating an unnervingly cheerful palette for a scene of planetary extinction. The couple remains indifferent, lost in their affection, suggesting either complete detachment or ironic defiance. In Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork, such combinations expose the contradictions in cultural storytelling, where romance and violence are often sold in the same breath. Denial uses this absurd pairing not to promote nihilism, but to provoke reflection on how society trivializes catastrophe through media and myth.
Material Detail and Collector Format
Each panel is painted on cradled wood, offering dimensionality and presence beyond a flat print. The edges are blacked out to create a framed effect, giving the work an object-like quality suited for both contemporary art installations and personal collections. The base image is screen printed in sharp graphic tones, but each edition is uniquely treated with hand-applied paint, drips, smears, and marks that personalize the piece. This makes every version of The End of the End Mini a singular artwork despite its shared motif. The limited edition of 20 increases its desirability within both pop art and street art collector communities, where originality and scarcity fuel long-term interest.
Denial’s Role in Contemporary Satirical Expression
Denial, born Daniel Bombardier, is an artist from Windsor, Ontario whose work critiques consumer culture, social absurdity, and media manipulation through a visual language rooted in propaganda design and street aesthetics. With a background in graffiti and billboard alteration, Denial transforms familiar formats—comic strips, advertising, political signage—into layered visual riddles. The End of the End Mini belongs to this ongoing narrative, using humor and horror to illustrate human contradiction. The work doesn’t encourage hopelessness but rather highlights the ridiculous normalization of disaster in pop imagery. It’s a moment frozen in beautiful denial, where intimacy and destruction merge under a blue sky, daring viewers to laugh, gasp, and rethink what they celebrate and what they ignore. In the lexicon of Street Pop Art & Graffiti Artwork, it is a postcard from the absurd future disguised as now.
