Perversity In Pastels
Posted by Ross Rosenberg
Barnaby Whitfield’s work is akin to taking a tour of hell as illustrated by a seven year-old girl with a severe case of coulrophobia. It is a credit to his abilities that he manages to so perfectly juxtapose the hideous and macabre with the hilariously absurd. Certainly when one first espies the portrait of an Oompa-Loompa, gazing lecherously at the viewer, or a lipstick smeared maiden riding a purple Pegasus, one realizes that they are in for a special kind of perverse magic, however it is only a taste of the bizarre scenery that lays ahead. Beware: may not be safe for work.
Barnaby Whitfield [Artist’s Site] : Phantasmaphile : traveling with the ghost
Categories: Cannibalism, Insanity, WTF, Illustration, Oompa-Loompas, Homoeroticism, NSFW, Artists, Transvestites, Horror, Gurls Gurls Gurls, Freaks, Surrealism, Boys Boys Boys, Art
Posted at 2:58 pm on December 21, 2007
1 Comment -
Yeah, the Oompa Loompa boytoy is really tweaking me out. I suppose I should be grateful he wasn’t fashioned in the style of the more recent Tim Burton production. Why the extra step to include Depp as the Jacko caricature he was intended to be, fondling his tiny slave, a jealous chimp over his shoulder, was not taken by Whitfield suggests only that my imagination is more sordid than his.
Comment by License Farm — December 22, 2007 @ 4:24 am