New Drawing Collages by Tony Fitzpatrick

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New Drawing Collages

Beautiful collage work by Tony Fitzpatrick. A quick Google, and here is another site with his collages, drawings, and etchings.

The visual art poetry of Tony Fitzpatrick, in the true style typical of Chicago eloquence, chronicles the causes of the little guy given the short end of the stick. His etchings, paintings, drawings, and collage work all are visual short stories and poems of the hardships of urban survival. His style and his vision both epitomize the gritty, working class celebrated by Carl Sandburg, Upton Sinclair, Nelson Algren, and Studs Terkel. Through his art, Fitzpatrick is a historian, passing along the images and moods of a world that was Chicago in its earlier times: a robust, brawling stew of hard labor in packing houses, steel mills, factories, open air markets like Maxwell Street, and other by-gone legendary places and people. Tony Fitzpatrick’s larger than life artwork festers and boils with concerns about prisoners on death row, sideshow freaks, prostitutes prowling dark avenues and dangerous niches of cities, has-been boxers, anthropomorphic dogs, cats, birds, and other animal types, all anti-heroes, all metaphors, which mirror the stories of struggles past and present, both real and imagined.

(via paperholic)