These heads are two examples of the drawings I've been doing lately. Sort of inspired by Dr. Lakra, the artist that I presented on last a couple classes ago, I started doodling on faces in magazines and old books. I have amassed a large menagerie of these characters and I'm currently working on ways of combining them/contextualizing them in ways that create a narrative. I kind of think of them as a devious gang, so one of the things I'm going to do is put a bunch of them together, along with maps and stuff like that, on a corkboard to emulate police investigations (like the one seen above in a still from the HBO show The Wire).
Hi JD,
ReplyDeleteFrom your presentations in class I can gather that you are interested in Mexican artists and imagery that is graphic in nature. I think you would really enjoy the work of Jose Guadalupe Posada. His life span was 1852-1913, a Mexican cartoonist and illustrator who made political satire. He depicts lady death La Katrina, skeletons partying and drinking tequila and also scenes from the Mexican revolution. I think you will love this, if you don’t already know of him. He is one of my favorite Mexican artists.
Malka Blanca