Above is “Sisters” by Fantasy-art genre painters Chain & Jane. Like so much artwork in that genre, I find this work to be shocking only in its dullness. Glassy eyes, mutilated bodies, bizarre costumes, dramatic composition. Yawn.
Category: Art
Dark shadows in the grass
Virile Influenza by Esao Andrews. Watch where your eyes go when looking at the painting. It’s exceedingly difficult to create a work that works with multiple dynamic points of focus.
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Meet Bacon’s Meat
Not every great artist projects their tortured souls onto the canvas. The late Francis Bacon did, with melting faces, blurring colors, and nightmarish visions. Shown above: “Figure with Meat”.
Wallflowers
Stunningly talented artist Ray Caesar generates hyper-realistic shiny-skinned women/girls in ambiguous poses in front of fanatically detailed backgrounds.
Hotter Than A Georgia Peach In Summertime
Artist The Pizz mixes neon, ultra-saturated colors that border on cartoonish, with rough-and-tumble action and regular nipple-slips. His talent is unmistakable, his compositions, though, only rarely transcend the level of middling rock-poster art.
Laughing Squid
Brian Mccarty photographs toys. This photo was taken for Laughing Squid. In his compositions the toys are integrated with the real world, not set apart.
Feeling Sentimental
Above is “Sentimental” by Kathie Olivas, who also creates wonderful custom vinyl toys. Sometimes I wonder if paintings like this are really Rorschach tests. Stare at them long enough and any meaning you find says more about you than what the artist intended.
Ride the walrus
By Alex Pardee for Upper Playground. Walrus has a Dr. Seuss look. Narwhal-horned rider has Mickey gloves and evil triangle eyes. Toys just keep getting better and better.
Roller Warrior
Urban samurai toy by Dr. Bao-NVC Crew.
A dog alone at a bar
Can a single, simple illustration add maturity and emotional depth to a cartoon that’s all parody and fart jokes? This masterpiece by Luke Chueh does.