If you haven’t already heard of him, you will soon.  Meet Nathan Janes (AKA Red Baron), the mind behind PUPAGANDA.  Janes, a political activist with libertarian ideals, is not shy about what motivates his energetic pop art: to expose the intricate machinery the global elite use to advance their own agenda.  And he does it with man’s best friend.

Here’s a sampling of his most thought-provoking portraits.

His art has been featured in numerous prominent publications, including the Boston Herald Newspaper , Pets Magazine , and Art Business News .  The 30-year-old Ohio resident has even been commissioned to do paintings by celebrities like Caprice Bourret (below) and Pete Wentz of the band “Fall Out Boy.”

While once engaged by the television set and other forms of the mass media, Nathan Janes began to notice that the reality that he was being sold was not his own.  In a society saturated with meaningless advertising art with no substance Janes became inspired to create works that would both inspire individual thought and awaken ones social conscious.   According to Janes, “It’s time people quit living a life of constant entertainment and start engaging in critical thought while questioning the barrage of commercial images and propaganda that they are faced with each day.”

Janes strives to combat the popular perception that fine art can only be in certain styles or of certain subjects. According to Janes, “Now more than ever I am striving to push my work so that the family pet is used as an artistic tool to depict deeper questions and messages about our society. Everyone can relate to the family dog but not everyone has a cognizance of the social issues that I depict in my paintings.  The dogs serve as a bridge for individuals to journey into topics and questions that they may have never explored before but certainly affect their lives nonetheless.”

Janes also maintains the website unplugthesignal.com, which looks to expose the biggest stories that don’t make the nightly news.