SUBTLEY DARK children's art

July 19, 2001 9:31 AM

SUBTLEY DARK children's art or just overbearingly cutesy?
posted by black8 (25 comments total)

I am thirty-five years old, and the father of four (Atticus Diablo, Tennessee Rose, Guinness MacRoan, and Soren Osiris).

Poor kids.
posted by dhoyt at 9:38 AM on July 19, 2001

> I am thirty-five years old, and the father of four (Atticus
> Diablo, Tennessee Rose, Guinness MacRoan, and Soren
> Osiris). What else can I say?

Oh, shut up.
posted by jfuller at 9:40 AM on July 19, 2001

Whoops, dhoyt beat me by a fraction. Great minds...
posted by jfuller at 9:41 AM on July 19, 2001

Hmm.. poor kids. heh.

I don't get it, the 'paintings' look kinda weak. I'm one that can appreciate a good illustrator more than ten 'soho artists', is that wrong? Seems great art is whatever pisses people off the most these days.
posted by tiaka at 9:44 AM on July 19, 2001

I like the images; I think *all* children should be boneless. Makes it easier to fit 'em into tight spaces.
posted by mudbug at 9:56 AM on July 19, 2001

Remember all great art has the element of tragedy

For instance, here the unicorn is trapped on the aircraft carrier.

*must stop making Kids In The Hall references*
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:07 AM on July 19, 2001

Overbearingly cutesy.

Next?
posted by m.polo at 10:09 AM on July 19, 2001

I disagree. I like them. And I was somewhat disappointed when almost all of the paintings for sale were already sold.
posted by crunchland at 10:13 AM on July 19, 2001

I like them as well - I like how even the "happy" paintings of bunny rabbits and such are still somewhat dark.
posted by annathea at 10:19 AM on July 19, 2001

I don't know why, but I sort of like these.
posted by rebeccablood at 10:36 AM on July 19, 2001

I love them. Sort of Gorey-esque, with a smidgen of Mark Ryden for good measure. So there.
posted by MegoSteve at 10:37 AM on July 19, 2001

They kind of remind me of the art in Nick Cave's Murder Ballads, with all the Sad Bunny Rabbits etc....also art in Swans' Omniscience and White Light From The Mouth of Infinity.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:38 AM on July 19, 2001

"About The Me?"
posted by kindall at 10:43 AM on July 19, 2001

"About the Me?"

Kind of takes talking about yourself in the 3rd person to a whole new level. Also "Gallery the 1st" gives me a little pause. Syntax the bad. On misplacing words the purpose.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:47 AM on July 19, 2001

I think *all* children should be boneless. Makes it easier to fit 'em into tight spaces.

Yeah, and you get more meat per pound that way...
posted by jpoulos at 10:54 AM on July 19, 2001

"Act the First" or "Chapter the First" was a motif in some film (or cartoon?) that was popular with the nerdy 80s high school crowd. (Yes, speaking from experience.)

Can't for the life of me remember where it comes from, but I'm thinking Princess Bride, Monty Python, or "Fractured Fairy Tales."

Does anyone remember?
posted by mudbug at 11:13 AM on July 19, 2001

re:Also "Gallery the 1st" gives me a little pause. Syntax the bad. On misplacing words the purpose.
posted by Kafkaesque at 10:47 AM PST on July 19

my take was that this is an allusion to Lewis Carroll's "hunting of the snark," whose chapters are "Fit the first, Fit the Second," etc.
posted by black8 at 11:13 AM on July 19, 2001

whacked use of the Dreamweaver layers feature

Much more interesting work of expressive cartoonishness: Joe Sorren, Anita Kunz, My Pet Skeleton
posted by TimTypeZed at 11:26 AM on July 19, 2001

Who the hell is this guy kidding? His artwork stinks, and he just plain clearly thinks too much of himself.
Im an artist, and I would never for a second have the hubris to think I could pass my stuff off if it looked like this crap.
Somebody needs to be taken down a notch.
posted by Azaroth at 11:32 AM on July 19, 2001

Childern? I wish that was hanging over my bed when I was younger...
posted by harrycaul at 11:50 AM on July 19, 2001

I think it has a lot to do with the colors used. Very muted. I wonder if the exact same paintings were re-created with the traditional bright colors associated with children's art would they have a vastly different effect. Granted, some of the imagery is pretty sombre because of the subject matter or character design, but I believe color determines a lot.
posted by robbie01 at 12:01 PM on July 19, 2001

People who give their kids stupid names to make themselves look 'cool' make me want to FUCKING KILL.

*cough*

I'm better now.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 4:08 PM on July 19, 2001

People who give themselves stupid logon names to make themselves look 'cool' make me want to FUCKING KILL.

*cough*

I'm better now.
posted by ttrendel at 3:11 AM on July 20, 2001

Oy! All this death and destruction, over a couple of names!

Maybe you guys should think about switching to decaf.
posted by crunchland at 4:42 AM on July 20, 2001

maybe their parents just hung up dark paintings in their rooms when they were just children.
posted by Sellersburg/Speed at 7:44 AM on July 20, 2001