Graphic Matters: Dürer, Rembrandt, Hogarth, Goya, Picasso, R. He is frequently described as a misanthrope and a perpetual malcontent, with his work being humorously. Best known for his expressive and highly stylized pen-and-ink drawings, Crumb unapologetically skewers sex, religion, race, and contemporary American culture. Crumb: Art & Beauty, David Zwirner, London (solo exhibition)Īline und Robert Crumb - Drawn Together, Cartoonmuseum Basel īlue Line, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Canadaĭesire, The Moore Building, Miami Design Districtįigure/Ground, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York Robert Crumb is a contemporary American satirist, comic artist, and illustrator. Natural meet the cult cartoonist Robert Crumb, whose artistic world is full of anti-heroes and demons from modern America and his. Crumb: Drawn Together, David Zwirner, New York 2016 Robert Crumb Selected Exhibitions in 2016: The story of this album cover starts in January of 1967, when Crumb moved to San Francisco. This is the story of Robert Crumb’s cover art for Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company’s career-changing album Cheap Thrills. Crumb’s illustrations and artworks have been exhibited at a variety of museums and galleries, including the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, the Society of Illustrators in New York, and the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Culture Center in Los Angeles.Įxhibitions 2017 Robert Crumb Selected Exhibitions in 2017:Īline Kominsky-Crumb & R. The result: one of the most iconic album covers to come out of the late 1960s. Crumb and his family are the subjects of Terry Zwigoff’s 1995 documentary, Crumb. Crumb’s own preference for large, muscular women is evident by their repeated appearance in his work, and his drawings are perceived as expressions of his own sexual fantasies and desires. His illustrations and comic strips are humorously irreverent, often sexually explicit, and admittedly influenced and inspired by hallucinations and drug use. Both comics were introduced in 1967.Ĭrumb himself is frequently described as a misanthrope and a perpetual malcontent. Natural, a mystic, bearded guru, thought to represent the optimistic spirit of the 1960s. Crumb’s other widely recognizable and popular creations are Keep on Truckin’, showing various men strutting through different landscapes and settings, and Mr. The Fritz the Cat series appeared until shortly after Ralph Bakshi’s 1972 animated film adaptation.

Working at Help! magazine at the time, Kurtzman admitted that while he enjoyed the cartoon, it could be problematic for the magazine to print it due to its content he did, however, eventually print Fritz the Cat in the publication. While his status as an alt legend has been secure for decades, it’s only in recent years that he’s truly transcended the comics medium to the realm of fine artist. As an adolescent, he was inspired by the work of Harvey Kurtzman, to whom Crumb sent an early rendering of his Fritz the Cat cartoon in the 1960s. Motivated by older brother Charles’s interest in comics and drawing, Crumb developed his skills in illustrating and cartooning beginning at a young age. Born in Philadelphia, PA, Crumb was the third of five children. Rorbert Crumb (American, born August 30, 1943) is a satirist, comic artist, and illustrator.

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