Peter's art is very bright, warm colored and looks (to me) like hippie expressionism. He uses warm gradients and makes cartoons non realistic. His artwork shows his personality. Peter Max is a vegetarian, environmentalist, defender of human and animal rights. The picture above was a donation from Peter to Taylor Swift as a congrats on her grammy winning albums "Fearless" & "Speak Now"
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As a child his parents fled Nazi Germany to many places during his childhood. He lived in Shanghai, China and Haifa, Israel. As a your teen he and his family moved to France where he studied art at the Louvre Museum. Later settling in Brooklyn, NY, launching his artistic career.
His art has been featured in super bowls, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 19994 World Cup and even the Grammies. |
My attempt to create a Peter Max styled image came out great. I am not a painter but i think I did a good job using the colors and the gradient frame. I left the subject in real color with shading in the face and hand. The hair is smudged into the colors to give it a hippie messy feel.