Robert Williams (artist)

Robert Williams is a famed, controversial painter and editor of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.

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Williams began as part of the trail-blazing Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonist visionaries like Robert Crumb. His mix of California car culture, cinematic apocalypticism, and film noir helped to create a new genre of psychedelic imagery along with artists like "Big Daddy" Ed Roth.

Related Topics:
Zap Collective - Underground - Cartoonist - Robert Crumb - California - Apocalypticism - Film noir - Psychedelic - "Big Daddy" Ed Roth

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Perhaps his most famous work, Appetite for Destruction, depicting interlocking levels of human-to-robot rape and brutality, was featured as the cover for the Guns n' Roses album of the same name, before unhappy parents made a fuss and it was moved to the inside cover by record company Geffen Records.

Related Topics:
Appetite for Destruction - Human - Robot - Rape - Guns n' Roses - Geffen Records

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Williams began the magazine Juxtapoz in 1994. It has propelled many artists with his taste for Americanized figurative nightmares and the blending of pin-up/religious/kitsch culture to fame, among them Mark Ryden.

Related Topics:
Juxtapoz - 1994 - Mark Ryden

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There is a mid-career collection of his work, The Lowbrow Art of Robert Williams (1982), published by RipOff Press (ISBN 0867194189).

Related Topics:
1982 - RipOff Press

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