Lovers: The Wood-Panel Paintings of Audrey Kawasaki
With influences from manga and Art Nouveau, Audrey Kawasaki paints delicate portraits of seductive females and languid lovers against the background of the always highly-visible grain of the wooden panels she uses. Nature and animals surround these surreal figures with splayed hair, expressive hands, often truncated/cut-off bodies, and yearning expressions. The contrast is between innocence and eroticism, the beauty and morbidity that these figures represent.
Tags: audrey kawasaki, erotic, innocence, pop surrealism, sweet/melancholy, truncated forms
Injured Children: The Art of Gottfried Helnwein
You probably thought this was a photograph when you first saw it (I definitely did); but it’s not. It’s an amazing painting by the renowned artist Gottfried Helnwein. His paintings are unbelievably photorealistic, and they often feature disturbing and provocative representations of children who are bloodied and injured, bandages wrapped around their heads: an allegory for innocence and trauma, emotional injury, the consequences of violence, abuse, and other scarring forces out in the world.
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