As regular readers of this blog may have noticed, I’m a sucker for art which looks like a twisted version of something Dr. Seuss might cook up. The best of these works tread the line between extreme but not so far out that you couldn’t imagine Theodor himself inking it after accidentally ingesting a couple hits of acid and wandering down the dark, underexplored back alleys of his mind, those he can never visit sober because they aren’t fully appropriate for little kids. Not way out beyond the pale, but just a couple steps over the line. Shown above is “Outlandish” by Dave Burke.
Unlike the Ryden I wrote about, this one didn’t slip away, and is hanging on my walls right now.
I love this too, and all work similiar to it. It is black comedy for the world of art.