Robert Williams (b. March 2, 1943) is a well-known controversial painter and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
Williams began as part of the trail-blazing Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonist visionaries such as Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery along with artists like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
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Robert Williams (b. March 2, 1943) is a well-known controversial painter and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.
Williams began as part of the trail-blazing Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonist visionaries such as Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery along with artists like Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
Williams' formal training in the arts began at Kings Borough Community College and culminated at Chouinard Art Institute. Of the moniker Lowbrow Williams steadfastly denies that the term was ever meant to define the movement, but was merely used in the title of his first collection.
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In the late 1960s, while doing advertisements and graphics for Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Williams was also a productive oil painter. It was during this period that he was creating his "Super Cartoon" paintings. Including "Appetite For Destruction" and "In The Land Of...
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