![]() ![]() When he graduated and opened his graphic design studio with friends in 1962, he began experimenting with abstraction and color - just in time for the psychedelic era. Throughout art school, Max focused on photorealism, but he found the style too restrictive. Reilly, and then the School of Visual Arts. Max enrolled in the Art Students League of New York in 1956, training under Frank J. Max’s paintings, graphic design and illustrations, which were inspired by these interests, were also informed by his experience with synesthesia, a sensory condition that causes him to see music and hear color.Īfter relocating to Haifa, Israel, then Paris, where he spent a significant amount of time in sketching classes at the Louvre, a teenage Max and his family finally moved to the United States, settling in Brooklyn. While there, Max developed his deep interest in American pop culture - namely comic books, jazz and cinema. Born Peter Max Finkelstein in Berlin in 1937, psychedelic Pop art icon Peter Max spent the first part of his childhood in Shanghai after his parents emigrated from Germany to flee the Nazis. ![]()
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