Eric Millikin
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Michigan State University Honors College |
| Known for | Postinternet art, painting, mixed media, comics, webcomics |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize, 2009 |
| Website | http://www.ericmillikin.com |
Eric Millikin, also known as Eric Monster Millikin, is an American contemporary artist and activist based in Detroit. He is known for his pioneering work in Internet art, Postinternet art, and webcomics. Millikin also works in performance art and body art, including "artistic drinking projects." His artwork is often controversial and semi-autobiographical, with political, romantic, occult, horror and black comedy themes.
Millikin's art often includes self-portraits as well as portraits of celebrities and political figures. The artwork is mixed media, often combining expressionist paintings and optical illusions with found objects. Millikin's works often include text written in free verse, anagrams, ambigrams and cut-up technique poetry. Millikin's artwork has also been published in books, serialized in newspapers, and displayed in art museums.
Millikin often collaborates with artist Casey Sorrow. Together, Millikin and Sorrow created and popularized the international animal rights holiday World Monkey Day.
Millikin's artwork is characterized by brilliantly colored paint brushed and smeared into swirls and spirals. His work often incorporates found objects, such as packages of candy and spiders. His large-scale artwork takes full advantage of the internet's formal possibilities, and has incorporated animation and winding "infinite canvas" designs, going beyond the limited sizes and shapes of conventional printed pages. The American Library Association's Booklist describes how Millikin's expressionistic visual style "crosses Edvard Munch with an incipient victim of high-school suicide" and The Hindu describes his paintings as "haunting images." Millikin's works range from those made almost completely of calligraphy, typography or text (for example "My Little Brother," a first-person tale from the perspective of one conjoined twin in a love triangle) to those that are completely abstract. Millikin's artwork is given by Scott McCloud as an example of using the web to create "an explosion of diverse genres and styles" and is described as "mind-blowing" by Comic Book Resources.
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