Scored a @maxrosenart lithograph recently, delivered by the artist himself this weekend. Free delivery if you invite him to a BBQ!! 😎
This piece is called ‘Defective Characters’, a playful and poignant alphabet-inspired series. Try to guess what emotion and behavioral trait each letter stands for.. it’s fun!
More context on the intention of the work, from the artist himself;
“Defective Characters is a play on words. In typography, a character is a symbol representing a letter, numeral, punctuation mark, or other unit of language.
I also think of my alphabet as 26 defective ‘characters’ who live and breathe in some kind of bizarre comic book world.
This work is fun and funny, to be sure. But for me the context is also deeply serious and spiritual. The title also refers to Character Defects - the negative traits and behaviors that ruin lives and make people generally miserable.
Every letter is inspired by a specific incident in my life - something I felt, experienced, or witnessed. Thus, A is for Apathy, C is for Cruelty, H is for Hopelessness, R is for Resentment, T is for Terror, W is for Workaholism, and so on.
This piece represents my own personal journey in coming to terms with negative experiences and emotions, and transforming them into something creative, beautiful, and ultimately joyous.
Stylistically, this work is influenced by everything I absorbed coming of age in NYC in the 1970s. The air was thick with graffiti, comic books, and the exploding Street Art movement with all its Pop Art connections. I devoured it all. On the weekends I lived at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and MoMA. My heroes were Warhol, Picasso, Dali, Breughel, Bosch, and most influential of all, the anonymous Egyptian geniuses who lived from the 33rd-28th Centuries BC, who invented all those brilliant, cartoony, sideways-standing figures and symbols that I love so dearly.”
In response to Runway's new Gen-4 Video model announcement..
"Someone please try the video model turing test - flapping wings"
I had this laying around 🥹😎 (Made with Gen-4)
Mr. President, Ukraine did not “start” this war. Russia launched an unprovoked and brutal invasion claiming hundreds of thousands of lives. The Road to Peace must be built on the Truth.🇺🇸🇺🇦
“Russia Invades Ukraine in Largest European Attack Since WWII” @FoxNews (February 24, 2022) https://t.co/ra8R9PI9oj