April 8, 2004

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(Another early one. Lami­na­ted. Sum­mer, 1998. New York City.)
I kinda like this one. Back then I was mes­sing around with a lot of purely abs­tract dra­wings (no head­line etc). Even though that angle had been around in pain­ting 50-plus years, the idea of using it in car­toons first see­med rather strange to peo­ple I sho­wed it to.
So it’s OK for a pain­ting to do it, but not a car­toon? Why?

4 Responses to “untitled”

  1. cynthia says:
    April 8, 2004 at 6:00 pm

    if i were to name this one i would call it ‘male-female’.
    and i wouldn’t say purely abs­tract car­toons are strange, i’d say they are ‘singular.’

  2. Nia says:
    April 9, 2004 at 2:39 am

    A pain­ting is meant to be (among a num­ber of things) deco­ra­tive. It doesn’t have to tell a story or show an object to achieve its pur­pose. In theory, a car­toon is meant to tell a story/express an opi­nion in a witty way. Abs­tract dra­wings can express emo­tions, but I still haven’t seen one that told a story.
    Your abs­tract car­toons almost always look like white noise to me.

  3. cynthia says:
    April 9, 2004 at 3:29 am

    if a car­toon (or anything else) stuck to what it was ‘meant to be’ then by defi­ni­tion it would not be abstract.

  4. Natalia says:
    April 9, 2004 at 4:56 am

    after hours of brow­sing i com­ple­tely for­got how i ended up here, but i just gotta say…
    your dra­wings hit&bruised me
    I really enjo­yed them
    thanx for making me smile tonight!