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George Kocar

George Kocar (Born 1948) is active/lives in Ohio.  George Kocar is known for Cartooning, illustration work.

George F. Kocar

Artist Statement:
"My paintings are in the tradition of Red Grooms, Peter Saul, Robert Colescott, the late works of Phillip Guston and Pablo Picasso - the painted cartoon.  I am a joker with a paintbrush, a born cartoonist turned painter. I question the absurdity of the world and my place in it, and put it down on canvas. 

We live in a funny, crazy world, and I try to express my opinions politically and socially in my paintings.  Some artists try to achieve perfection in their work. I believe that nothing is perfect, and instead I try to focus on the flaws. It is the flaws that make this a crazy, wacky, wonderfully, funny world. Flawed thinking results in most of the "what's wrong in the world" socially and politically. I raise questions in my mind, and it is these questions I put on canvas. I use the painted cartoon to bring across my points. I try to disarm my viewers with comedy, parody and satire. It is said, "Laughter is   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 10668 characters.]  Artist bio

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