The Fine Art of Comics, with Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware
Wed, July 20, 2011
7 pm
Lyonel Feininger, Wee Willie Winkie's World, from The Chicago Sunday Tribune, November 25, 1906. Commercial lithograph, 23 1/2 x 17 13/16 in. (59.7 x 45.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York; gift of the artist 261.1944.9 © 2011 Lyonel Feininger Family, LLC/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY
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"The Kin-der-Kids" and “Wee Willie Winkie’s World,” the pioneering and popular comic strips that Lyonel Feininger debuted in 1906, formed the basis of many of his subsequent paintings, as the visual language of comics that he employed for his commercial work migrated into his canvases. The cross-pollination between comics and high art, which began in the early 20th century, also fed the extraordinary explosion of graphic novels and comics in the past several decades. In conjunction with the exhibition Lyonel Feininger: At the Edge of the World, a panel of master comic artists, including Gary Panter, Art Spiegelman, and Chris Ware, will discuss the intersection of comics and fine art. Moderated by John Carlin.
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