A Short History Of The Comic Strip In Popular Culture XIII

1. Raymond Pettibon No Title, 1987
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1. Raymond Pettibon No Title (Entering Marlboro County), 2005
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1. Raymond Pettibon To Wit, 2013
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The quick stroke. Who does not love the gentleness, the warmth and promptness of a gestural moment. The strong and intense handcraft of Raymond Pettibon. Expressing everything within the rapid act of expressive self-unloading. The collection artwork of no editions. Big, raw brushstrokes, applied within a few seconds.
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Parallel Genesis

1. Jean Cocteau Le Livre Blanc, 1930
2. Roy Lichtenstein Laocoon, 1988  

When I saw the Lichtenstein exhibition in London, I felt a moment of 'enlightment'. When an expressive brush stroke and a fine pencil line meet in mythological thunder and lightning, two genius' minds make love.
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A Photo Booth Biennale, Epilogue II

A second look at The Artwork Will Be Present, 2013.



1. Nobuyoshi Araki Colourscapes, 1991
2. Nobuyoshi Araki Untitled, 2010

It wasn't until a visit to Vienna that I had been fully introduced to the work of Nobuyoshi Araki. When sexual obsessions, fetishistic contemplation and the excuse to create 'art' disembogue into documents of ego and reach a high visual quality based on the 'low' human impulse.
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