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Born around 1950, Robert A. Fischer weighs in at about 225 pounds on a 5' 7½" frame. Typical attire would
consist of an orange pith helmet studded with neon dots; be-buttoned, be-chained
and be-brooched Oshkosh B'gosh overalls; leopard-skin-style T-shirt with a cape;
a painted purse (or possibly a tentlike bag of burlap); his head covered in a
Che Guevara style beret; and dozens of necklaces and chains hung with odd
objects.
Fischer was hailed as "the Windy City Warhol" by People
magazine until his move to Los Angeles. In 1986 he became the first artist
from outside California to be featured at the fashionable Spago restaurant,
after restaurateur Barbara Lazaroff and her husband chef Wolfgang Puck bought
one of his pieces at a charity auction. Like the late Warhol, Fischer's
art is humorous and satirical. He or his art have been featured on such
shows as "Late Night with David Letterman", "The Oprah Winfrey
Show", and the CBS evening news. His works are on permanent display
in Washington D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Fischer is best known for painting sultry female faces and abstractions
thereof on jackets and other clothing sported by such show biz personalities as
Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, and Madonna. His first pop art visages debuted on
the back of a jacket owned by his teen age son painted by his father because he
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