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Eric Drooker, a native of Manhattan, began creating street art as a teenager. His iconic drawings and posters have become hallmarks of the global street art movement, with dozens of his paintings appearing on the covers of The New Yorker.
His first book, Flood, won the American Book Award, and was followed by Blood Song, which is currently in development as a feature film. Naked City completes his acclaimed City Trilogy. Drooker’s graphic novels have been translated into numerous languages, and his animation work for the film HOWL led to a collaboration with DreamWorks Animation.
Drooker’s art is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Library of Congress. He is available for speaking engagements and frequently delivers slide lectures at colleges and universities.
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Eric Drooker
Eric Drooker (* 1958 in New York City) ist ein US-amerikanischerZeichenkünstler und Cartoonist.
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[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]Drooker wuchs in New Yorks Lower East Side auf. Damals lebten in dem Stadtteil hauptsächlich Einwanderer aus der Arbeiterklasse, es herrschte eine linke politisch-aktive Stimmung. Drookers Großeltern waren jüdische Immigranten aus Osteuropa, sie beeinflussten ihn mit anarchistischem Gedankengut. Drooker interessierte sich früh für die Zeichenkunst und Cartoons, insbesondere die Holzschnitt-Literatur von Frans Masereel und Lynd Ward, sowie die Untergrund-Comics von Robert Crumb.
Drooker lernte Bildhauerei an der Cooper Union in New York. Nach dem Studium wandte er sich wieder verstärkt dem Zeichnen zu und gestaltete Poster und politische Flugblätter. Seine schwarz-weißen Bilder erinnern an Masereel und den Expressionismus der 1930er-Jahre. Sie wurden häufig kopiert und verwendet, manchmal auch für kommerzielle Zwecke und ohne Lizenz. Aber sie waren populär genug, um ihm ein kleines Einkommen als Straßenkünstler zu gewähr
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Eric Drooker
American painter and graphic novelist
Eric Drooker is an American painter, graphic novelist, and frequent cover artist for The New Yorker. He conceived and designed the animation for the film Howl (2010).
Biography
Drooker grew up in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town, adjacent to the Lower East Side, which was then a working-class immigrant neighborhood with a tradition of left-wing political activism. He attended the Downtown Community School in Manhattan's East Village. Drooker developed an early interest in graphic arts and cartoons, particularly the woodcut novels of Frans Masereel and Lynd Ward and the underground comics of Robert Crumb.
After studying sculpture at Cooper Union,[2] Drooker turned to poster art, creating flyers on local political issues while working as a tenant organizer. His images, done in a striking black-and-white style reminiscent of Masereel and other 1930s expressionist illustrators, were widely copied and reused by others—sometimes for unrelated purposes such as advertising concerts—and were popular
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