Summer of love peter max biography
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Summer of Love & Peace
Poster
Peter Max's 'Summer of Love & Peace' poster features his playful and fluid, Art Nouveau-inspired typography that he created and drew in the 1960s - an era that brought him international recognition for his positive interpretation of pop art and the love-and-peace movement.
With the new music of the era, came new art - color saturated images, organic, distorted and elaborate hand lettering and typography, vibrating colors, bold, black line drawings and Max's signature color blends that he created on press with a split fountain technique. This poster vibrantly recollects these elements in a tribute to the Summer of Love and calls back to Peter's work of his early 'Cosmic Art' period.
2013
16 x 12 inches © ALP, Inc.
- Poster fits in standard 16x12 inch frames.
- Posters sold signed and dedicated only.
- Dedications must include a name(s).
- Posters are shipped "Signature Required".
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by Judy Gonyeau, managing editor
The 1960s and ’70s were all about color. Peter Max Color. Bright, fluid, fantastical, and full of enlightenment. This artist burst on the scene in the beginning of what would become an age of counterculture, taking the previous staid, straight lines and figures used in art and advertising and bringing them into the future with vibrancy and love.
A Life of Movement
Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1937, one-year-old Peter Maxand his parents jumped aboard a plane for a their life of travel and landed in Shanghai, China in 1938. For the next 13 years, his childhood was filled with taking in the American influence as seen through the eyes of the Chinese and other international cultures. Jazz, movies, film, and more filled his hours and piqued his curiosity about what was happening in the world of art, manifestation of thought, and American cultural symbols and ideals. Here, Max also discovers astronomy, a passion that would show up time and again in his future artwork. After a six-month stay-over in Paris in 1953, where Max studied realism at the Louvre, the family landed in New York City. Here, Max is blown away by the sheer size of America and all things American. This timing is impeccable. America is enjoying a resurgence of prosperity in•
Peter Max
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