Peter Max is an artist that uses many different styles. He also uses different techniques and medium – he worked with oils, water colors, dyes, pastels, finger paints, acrylics, pen, charcoal, etchings, engravings, colored pencils, animation cells, computer graphics, videoing, serigraphs, lithographs, silk screens, ceramics, sculpture and collage. He likes to use every media and tries to find ways to express global problems and issues through his paintings. Here is a biography of his life.
Peter Max was born in Berlin in 1937. He moved with his family to China at a very young age. He was raised in China, in Shanghai. He lived in a house between a Buddhist monastery, a Viennese cafe and a Sikh temple. He learned a lot