{"id":2477918,"date":"2026-06-27T04:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2477918"},"modified":"2026-06-27T04:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:24:42","slug":"this-artist-turns-comics-into-monumental-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/this-artist-turns-comics-into-monumental-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"This artist turns comics into monumental drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-MiSJ2_jPUk?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Step into the world of Bronx-based artist Robert Pruitt who creates monumental figurative drawings inspired by comics, science fiction, Afrofuturism, and Black cultural history. Watch as his drawing process unfolds, starting with photography and reference-based drawing, which incorporates costumes, symbolism, and materials rooted in Black cultural rituals and everyday life. His life-sized figures aren\u2019t just portraits\u2014they are fully constructed worlds where body, adornment, and imagination work together.<\/p>\n<p>Superheroes and comic book mythology run deep through Pruitt\u2019s thinking, shaping how he approaches scale, gesture, and the idea of the heroic figure. Raised in Houston\u2019s Fourth Ward and now working in New York, Pruitt uses drawing to imagine Black futures beyond stereotypes and the limits of history. He states, \u201cOur relationship to beauty is subjective&#8230; What happens if we&#8217;re not bound by these things?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to get the latest videos: http:\/\/mo.ma\/subscribe<br \/>\nExplore our collection online: http:\/\/mo.ma\/art<br \/>\nPlan your visit in person:  http:\/\/mo.ma\/visit<\/p>\n<p>Commit to art and ideas. Support MoMA by becoming a member today: https:\/\/moma.org\/join<\/p>\n<p>The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist.<\/p>\n<p>#figuredrawing #scifiart #comicbooks #afrofuturism #RobertPruitt #art #museumofmodernart #moma #museum #modernart<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-MiSJ2_jPUk\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step into the world of Bronx-based artist Robert Pruitt who creates monumental figurative drawings inspired by comics, science fiction, Afrofuturism, and Black cultural history. Watch as his drawing process unfolds, starting with photography and reference-based drawing, which incorporates costumes, symbolism, and materials rooted in Black cultural rituals and everyday life. His life-sized figures aren\u2019t just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2477919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2477918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782534280_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2477918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477920,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2477918\/revisions\/2477920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2477918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2477918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2477918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}