Robert Cramb’s exhibition opened the Museum of Modern Art in Paris

The Museum of Modern Art in Paris paid tribute to Robert Crumb, a satirical artist, master of the comic underground, as part of a comprehensive retrospective of the American author.

“It is strange that it is my exhibition that opens this new temple of culture,” the artist said at the presentation of the exhibition, which will last until August 19. More than 700 journal publications and 200 paintings demonstrate the author’s sharp humor, which has become one of the banners of the American counterculture.

Robert Crumb shows one of his works at the exhibition, which opened the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Photo: paris24.com

Sex, drugs and music of the twenties. Here are some of Robert Crab’s obsessions (Philadelphia, 1943), an artist with a reputation for being a woman hater and who once admitted that at the age of seven he was sexually attracted to Bugs Bunny.

In 1959, a future celebrity who grew up in a dysfunctional family, on the verge of suicide at the age of 19, leaves Philadelphia to settle in San Francisco, the city that became the capital of the hippies. It was there that he met Harvey Kurtzman, the editor of Help!, Where he published his first drawings.

“His work embodies the fall of a white man who is degrading morally and physically,” contemporaries used to say about his work.

However, the artist “does not adhere to the values of hippies.” In the eighties, he married and began to enjoy an orderly life in France, and his hallucinogenic style of painting seriously changed, inspired by the two great loves of his life, to his wife Alina and to music.

Not surprisingly, the Paris exhibition also introduces viewers to portraits of the idols of blues and country music, as well as the many vinyl covers prepared by Robert Cramb.

In general, Paris offers a full tour of the talent of a prolific artist, who has been living in a village in the south of France near Nimes for twenty years, where he continues to draw painstakingly in his 68 years.

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