Andre De Freitas meshes his photography background with illustration by creating crystal clear, realistic drawings. The technique is well-suited to his Zombie Portraits series, in which he transforms adored cartoons and classic comic-book characters into grim, white-eyed zombies with menacing expressions and festering wounds. Although the eerie collection is the epitome of unsettling — it showcases a demonic Donald Duck and a desolate Charlie Brown — the detailing and color palette De Freitas employs is perfectly apropos for Halloween. See your favorite cartoon metamorphosed into an undead monster after the cut.
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I always see a little bit of my father in Popeye. But something that’s not so personal as that. It’s ‘I yam what I yam.’ It’s self-acceptance. And it’s hard to function in the metaphysical. You first have to trust in yourself and when you trust in yourself, you can follow your interests and follow them on a profound level. And when you focus on those interests, that’s when things become very metaphysical. So this concept of ‘I yam what I yam.’
- In a very Warhol-ian move, though perhaps no more Warhol-ian than he usually is, Jeff Koons has a new Popeye-inspired exhibit in London, which he talks up to Euronews. Read a review of the exhibit here.
