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Born in Los Angeles California in 1953, Mark Vallen has been creating images for as long as he can remember.

Mark vallen for kids biography

He has forged a style shaped not so much by how others painted, but what they painted. With a commitment to figurative realism his influences are wide ranging; the painters of the late 19th century American Ash Can School; the German Expressionists of the Weimar years; the artists of the Mexican Muralists Movement and German Renaissance; Goya, Daumier, and the socially conscious American painters from the Great Depression era.

Vallen’s aesthetics emerged from the turmoil of the late 1960s; he took cues from the Chicanarte or “Chicano art” scene, found inspiration in the works of black American artist like John Biggers and Charles White, and became infatuated with the West Coast psychedelic paintings and posters of the era.

In 1971 at the age of 17, he had published cartoons in the Los Angeles Free Press newspaper; that same year he publishe