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Painting Flipped

 

"At one point in class, I turned the painting upside down. The teacher said to me 'Theodor, real artists don't turn their paintings upside down.' I walked out of the class and never took another lesson."

- Dr. Seuss (Phillip 2004)

 

 

While Dr. Seuss has never taken a single art lesson, it is difficult to say that he wasn't influenced by numerous people over the course of his career. While his work is obviously his own, and easily recognizable, there are numerous authors from the past and his present that were influential in creating that Seussian style...

 

Gluyas Williams

Rube Goldberg

George Herriman

M.C. Escher

Antonio Gaudi

Palmer Cox

 

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