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Robert Williams

Robert Williams (Born 1943) is active/lives in California, New Mexico.  Robert Williams is known for Funk genre-figure, cartoonist, illustrator.

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California artist Robert Williams trained in painting first at Los Angeles City College and later at the Chouinard Art Institute.  He got his first break when he became the art director for legendary hot rod hero Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.  With the rise of the counterculture in the late 1960's, Williams found a growing audience in the underground comic milieu that nurtured such figures as Robert Crumb, Victor Moscoso and S. Clay Wilson.

Williams was one of the originators of Zap Comix, and in 1994 he founded Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine with a group of artists and collectors.  The publication's mission statement was to present art that is provocative, technically adept and worthy of exposure, and the magazine has attracted broad attention to the style.  In the magazine, he has claimed credit for inventing the term 'lowbrow' art.

His themes are deliberately low class, involving raunchy sexual jokes, and focusing on garish, ba   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1876 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Robert Williams available:    Wally Wood,  Todd McFarlane,  Frank Miller,  Artist Unknown,  Al Raymond,  Jack Kirby,  Bob (Kahn) Kane,  Frank Rudolph Paul,  Robert (R Crumb) Crumb,  Charles Addams,  Frank Frazetta,  Rick Alden (Richard) Griffin,  Norman Blaine Saunders,  Charles Monroe Schulz,  Gilbert Shelton,  Bill Griffith,  Jim Lee,  George Wilson,  Russ (Russell) George Manning,  Steven Clay Wilson,  Skip (Mervyn) Williamson,  Peter Bagge,  Alex Nino,  Dale Keown



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Facts about Robert Williams

   Publications  Book References:  4
Magazine References:  3

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3 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert Williams
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Illustration New and Notable Books September 2004 Editors, Illustration Yes
ARTnews Underrated/Overrated December 2000 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art in America Review of Exhibitions October 1998 Editors, Art in America Yes
4 Book References for Robert Williams
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2000 Fuglie, Gordon Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art
(Exhibition catalog)
29 Yes
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1993 Laguna Art Museum 75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California
(Exhibition catalog)
139 Yes
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