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As a child, Edward Paschke’s interest in drawing led him to a degree program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. There, he learned to paint expressionistically, that is capturing an emotional response or seizing the moment, which was a different interpretation from the way one's eye perceives it. While working as a commercial artist by day, he found that at night he was obsessed with disenfranchised people. He wandered the streets of ethnic neighborhoods observing a different side of life: sex workers, strippers, drunks, and tattoo parlors became his favored subjects. Paschke found inspiration in those on the fringe of society and those who didn’t fit the social norms. He soon found his way to Pop art, which was on the rise. He used Pop art to express interest in the “strange” and “unusual.” With his prints, he used bright colors, rich patterns, and distorted proportions. Presumably this print is of Klaus, however, we don't know who that is. This is a very bright and psychedelic portrait that shows Paschke's fun Pop art style.