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
Doll Parts – The Art of Lost Fish
“Doll Parts” is the aptly named latest exhibition of Elodie/Lost Fish. Lost Fish mixes innocence with sexuality and evil in her precious, delightful illustrations. Uber-cute, teary-eyed tiny girls with a melancholy expression, bud mouths, hyperrealistic porcelain-white faces and rouged cheeks are the subjects of her painstakingly rendered digital art. Baby faces and symbols of childhood abound. There are murderous-seeming aristocrats, darling deformities of children, lovelorn cyborgs, and all the accoutrements of such precious beings, including teacups, cakes, ribbons, flowers, and pet creatures. They seem yearning, hurt, vulnerable, and wicked by turns. There are Lolita, fetish, and cyberpunk overtones. The resultant imagery is almost too cute for words: the epitome of innocent and corrupted dollflesh.
Tags: animals, babies, cute little girls, dolls, fetish, lost fish, pop surrealism, sweet/melancholy, victorian
Marina Bychkova’s Enchanted Dolls
Marina Bychkova makes the most beautiful ball-jointed dolls. They are incredibly detailed, costumed, and decorated with body art. Made of porcelain rather than plastic, they are exquisite creations evocative of the melancholy side of fairy tales.
Tags: dolls, modern fairy tales, porcelain, sweet/melancholy
Fairytale Illustrator Nicoletta Ceccoli
Nicoletta Ceccoli is magical.
Tags: cute little girls, modern fairy tales, pop surrealism, sweet/melancholy
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