Monday, November 15, 2010

ROBERT KNOKE

Robert Knoke
Paint It Black: Robert Knoke's Portraits of the Hipster Avant-Garde
German artist Robert Knoke may be known to the contemporary art world as a traditional portraitist, but unlike his forbears he's not interested in prettifying stuffed shirts. Instead, Knoke trains his ballpoint pen and markers on an unruly universe of hipsters, avant-garde artists, and visionaries, including Patti Smith and Marc Jacobs, rendering them in stark, expressive images.














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