The dry pastel portrait entitled Dubuffet presents a striking intersection of mid-century high modernism and mid-century lowbrow graphic satire. Depicting an exaggerated, attenuated male figure clad in a massive, earth-toned overcoat against a scumbled cerulean ground, the work operates simultaneously as an affectionate biographical homage and an irreverent deconstruction of an icon of the European … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Dubuffet
Unusual Normalcy
Another strange figure is taken from a combination of images from time wastage on Facebook. The eye patch just puts him over the top for me. No more just a runway model, he now has a unique stylishness that propels him into the stratus of fashion influencer. Whatever the new emperor wears becomes the newUnusual … Continue reading Unusual Normalcy
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Project Inspired by David Park #3, a.k.a. Finding my voice
“Portrait Project Inspired by David Park #3, a.k.a. Finding my voice” presents the familiar labor of portraiture—likeness, presence, and psychological index—but refashions it through a deliberately composite visual rhetoric. The work is explicitly based on David Park’s celebrated 1958 oil painting titled Man in a T-Shirt, and it extends that inheritance by incorporating stylistic pressures associated with Picasso … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Project Inspired by David Park #3, a.k.a. Finding my voice
Mechanical Mummification
The Industrial Revolution is in full swing all over the world and it has made the planet much smaller, as travellers come home with the strangest artifacts from far off lands. The bi-product is that science is developing unchecked and amorally. Mad Science has become the fashion of the day among the rich and privileged.Mechanical … Continue reading Mechanical Mummification
No Cap, My Soul Still Slays: The Mirror Can’t Cancel My Vibe – (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 22 for Gen Z)
My mirror can’t tell me that I’m old,Not while you’re still glowing, fearless, and bold.Your youth keeps my whole vibe feeling alive,Like I’m still out here ready to thrive. Don’t think your fresh energy will fade away,While my own shine gets lost in yesterday.’Cause your heart is literally part of my soul,And my heart in … Continue reading No Cap, My Soul Still Slays: The Mirror Can’t Cancel My Vibe – (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 22 for Gen Z)
“The Mirror Can Kiss My Ass: Still Young Where It Counts” (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 22 for Gen X)
My damn mirror won’t convince me that I’m getting old,Not while you’re still out there burning bright and bold.Your fresh fire keeps my tired bones feeling alive,Like some old-school rebel still learning how to survive. Don’t think your youth is just some temporary ride,While my worn-out years are something I gotta hide.’Cause your heart’s got … Continue reading “The Mirror Can Kiss My Ass: Still Young Where It Counts” (Revisionist Shakespeare – Sonnet 22 for Gen X)
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Inspired by David Park #2
“Portrait Inspired by David Park #2” reads as an intimate negotiation between figuration and expressive deformation: it begins with an inherited compositional premise drawn from David Park’s celebrated 1959 oil painting Boy in Striped Shirt, yet it does not merely replicate Park’s subject. Instead, it reanimates Park’s humanist intensity through a more urgent, layered painterliness—one that … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Inspired by David Park #2
Marilyn Manson Smiling At His Granddaughter
Originally a meant to be a study of this odd model posing in drawing class, and yes, he was wearing smudged makeup. There was something very familiar in the face. At first, I thought it was an old friend from school, then slowly something else emerged. Perhaps it was the fact that our teacher likesMarilyn … Continue reading Marilyn Manson Smiling At His Granddaughter
“A Heart That Never Ages: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 22 and the Eternal Language of Love, Identity, and Youth”
The Self Beyond the Mirror William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 22 is one of the more intimate and psychologically complex poems in the Shakespearean sonnet sequence. Unlike the grand philosophical reflections on time, beauty, and mortality found in many of the surrounding sonnets, Sonnet 22 explores something deeply personal: the relationship between aging, identity, emotional connection, and … Continue reading “A Heart That Never Ages: Shakespeare’s Sonnet 22 and the Eternal Language of Love, Identity, and Youth”
T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Inspired by David Park
“Portrait Inspired by David Park” can be read as a modern, painterly meditation on how likeness is constructed—not merely depicted—through color, distortion, and selective erasure. While the work presents itself as a portrait, its organizing logic departs from conventional figuration. The figure is modeled through translucent veils and abrupt, diagrammatic blocks of tone, suggesting that … Continue reading T.A.E.’s Art Reviews – Portrait Inspired by David Park