Subversive, ink drawing.
Quotes from the art21 video:
"I spend a lot more time writing than i do drawing... i really want to make that distinction"
"The fact is that i make work that require both."
"all those books downstairs, thousands we have-- he reads those all the time."
"He just has a large range of things that interests him... it can be anything, from erotic to a bowl of fruit."
"A mind that can be that interested with a wide spectrum... has to be kind of busy."
"It's not just drawing pretty picutres, he has all these ideas."
"The way i think and the way i write... it's not always very direct. It can lead anywhere. So I want it to be as fluent as possible."
"it becomes almost instinctive."
he works on a board in his lap like i do~
"More of a narrative than it is a cartoon... there still is an element of caricature and cartoon that my
work contains..."
doesn't respect hero worship/the decadent/ the great/ authoritian.
doesn't consider himself a political artist. "But i'm not going to apologize and shy away from it."
Irreverent~
works washy and then darker; or works darker and then adds washes.
motifs that reoccur: "They start as one image, and, for whatever reason, they had some kind of resonance with me, that brought them back."
works are displayed on the wall in a big wall jumblepile.
Words in his work are important. Apparently has a degree in econ. in college when he was 15.
Not all of pettibon's imagery or cultural interests excite me (actually, most of it doesn't, except for when color happens), but the words make it interesting. Darkly cunning. I can appreciate this human's intellect.
There was an interesting discussion in the art 21 video about how cartoon characters are more real (earnest) then people like politicians.
Pictures are hard to acquire because the main websites for him work on hovers and do not actually leave images up on the screen, but here are some:
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