Tag Archive "r-crumb"

Are movies the new boudoir art?

Back when royal courts were major art purchasers, painters like Francois Boucher, Rubens and many others got to exercise their sexy muscle on behalf of their royal employers, painting titillating works based on mythology. Many of these erotic paintings (some specifically for the boudoir) now sit in major art museums around the world, a reminder that the erotic in art once had great appeal for patrons who liked a little (or a lot of) sensory pleasure in their paintings and sculpture. As Jonathan Jones said recently about old master paintings in Britain’s National Gallery: “A great painting can be shockingly ...

St. Joe’s University seniors review three shows

As an ongoing assignment for their Senior Projects class at St. Joes, my students have to write gallery reviews of shows they’ve seen.  I got three little gems in the first batch of reviews, and I’m sharing them with you here since they present fresh commentary on shows many of us have seen.  A Look into R. Crumb’s Twisted Worldby Lisa Hanson Robert Crumb and Aline Kominsky CrumbAline & Bob on Human Depravity, 2004, ink on paper As an avid reader and fan of Calvin and Hobbes and other comics, I pride myself on my appreciation for cartoons. After visiting ...

Weekly Update – Fall in Philadelphia, go see

This week’s Weekly has my fall roundup story. Below is the copy and there are more pictures at flickr. Libby’s post on Global Suburbia. Robert CrumbComplete Crumb Comics #1018 7/8” h x 16 15/16” w x 1 1/8” d, framedCover, 1991Ink on paperCourtesy of Denis Kitchen Art Agency Social satires, politics and science give an electric charge to the fall art season. From Peter Saul’s paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) to R. Crumb’s comics at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), we’ll be laughing as we cry with these artists about history, war, injustice, incompetence ...

R. Crumb sculptural wow at ICA–artblog mini video

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Wite-out forever: R.Crumb’s corrections

One of comic strip artist R.Crumb’s sketchbook pages; all these photos of Crumb’s sketchbooks supplied by Rosenwald-Wold Gallery Before I get embroiled in the silly stuff that sets my mind spinning, I need to say that for R.Crumb fans–I’m one of them–the show Robert Crumb: My True Inner Self at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery offers more than just a review of the range of his comic book drawings, but also a mix of his cartoons and drawings on things like napkins and paper towels and other non-standard drawing surfaces. Crumb is one of those obsessive guys who has to express what’s on ...

R. Crumb Alert!

Thanks, Sid Sachs, for the heads’ up on the great article on Robert and Aline Crumb in today’s NY Times. (Read the article quick — and take the nice audio slide show — before it goes to Times Select.) Comic book page by Aline CrumbThe story is mostly about what it’s like being Mrs. Crumb–wife of the famous cartoonist but also a free spirit (in an open marriage with several liaisons) and also a cartoonist in her own right soon to have a comic memoir and a solo show in New York at Adam Baumgold Gallery, Feb. 15 through March ...

Stand-up Comics

Post by Andrea Kirsh Winsor McKay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland, from Masters of American Comics Mikhail Baryshnikov once said No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. Likewise, artists have long recognized the brilliance and virtuosity of comics artists from Winsor McCay and George Herriman to R. Crumb and Art Spiegelman. Museums are now catching on. You can see an extraordinary range of brilliant work in Masters of American Comics. Organized jointly by LA MoCA and UCLA’s Hammer Museum, it is currently on view in two parts: the early work ...