Showing a compulsion for drawing at an early age, his parents enrolled him in saturday morning art classes when he was five years old. Todd schorr, whose exhibition titled american surreal is on view. Todd schorrs art hangs in museums and the art collections of leonardo dicaprio, patricia arquette, and. Browse and buy a vast selection of graphic art books and collectibles on. The book is packed with paintings that represent a combination of an abstracted cartoon vocabulary channeled through the techniques of the old masters.
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