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i've been a huge marx brothers fan since i was a kid.

i love all of their films. "Night at the Opera" and "Day at the Races" are classics, of course.

but the real gold is to be found in their earlier films with RKO Pictures, such as "Monkey Business" and "Horse Feathers". Their humor, wordplay and gags were more unrestrained and manic.

This culmination peaks with "Duck Soup", a film that was banned in Italy upon it's release because Mussolini saw it as a personal insult (the marx brothers were thrilled to hear this).

2008. 8x5x11 ballpoint pen and prismacolor markers on 11x14 bristol.
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!lamusemalade Sep 24, 2009
marx bros..cool:thumbsup:
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~madbaumer37 Sep 25, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
:D
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~Arum1966 Oct 19, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
Great Marx portrait. It has the Jeremy Baum flair to it.
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~madbaumer37 Oct 19, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
thsnk you sir. i wanted to do something more imaginative with this one, but the image of groucho speaks so much on it's own.
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~alinaphobic Oct 18, 2008
i don't know whether this was intentional on your part, but I really like that his eyes are unfocused.
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~madbaumer37 Oct 18, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
thanks. yeah, if you happen to watch him on film you'll notice that he was perhaps born with a lazy eye, of which he would often use in comic facial expressions in his act.
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~alinaphobic Oct 18, 2008
ah, very nice attention to detail then.
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!DidiMenendez Oct 15, 2008
I love Groucho!
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~madbaumer37 Oct 15, 2008  Professional Traditional Artist
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`SRaffa Oct 14, 2008   General Artist
More even than the likeness, there's an authentic sense of Groucho's physicality, the way he'd slouch aggressively into a scene-- one of the founding fathers of a proper modern attitude... :groucho:
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