Dragon Lady Adrift

Dragon Lady Adrift


M. Rini, Artist,

Acrylic on Canvas, 16X20

In a far off land, enveloped in intrigue, you enter a dark bar filled with unsavory characters. What you want is a cold beer. What you find is trouble, and its dressed in magenta silk. Her name unimportant, but her measurements (36-24-36) are. You look at her and then turn your head to look at the wheezing corpulent man in the opposite corner of the bar. She looks at the same man in the opposite corner while she is looking at you. The dreaded Dragon Lady, armed with her diabolical drifting eye, has you both right where she wants you. The question is, which of you is in her good eye, and which one will not live to see the sunrise come morning...

Special Note: DLA was obtained from the estate of a 92 year-old lady, this picture hung in her home for as long as any of her family members could remember. Several of them thought it could have been their Grandma as a young girl; they claimed that she had eyes in the back of her head.

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Elaine & Reggie

Helen V. Foster, Artist
Oil on Canvas 24"X37"
pre-1980

The color. The hues. The wind that blows the scarf beneath her chin. The luminescence that lights the buttons on her blouse like the main runway at O'Hare International. The large lemon-like Pee Wee Herman style chair. The hair do and dual lip color. The missing right arm. The vibrancy that is all present except in the emotion of the subject and the aloof nature her dog. 

It is all for naught: ennui is all that remains as conveyed in Eliane's drifting eye. Touche.

SPECIAL NOTE: There has been great debate in art circles as to the origins of Elaine & Reggie. The work has even caused some art scholars to ask is "Reggie" really "Elaine"?

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Little Cigars

Little Cigars

Unknown, Artist

Acrylic on Canvas; 18"X24", Framed
Date Undocumented
Murialism

In this work, noted artist Unknown reminds us that even for young children, a cigar is just a cigar; but a good cigar is a smoke.

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Fifi

Fifi

Marj Teague, Artist
Pastel on Paper 13"X17",  ca. 1975
Poodlism
West Virginia School of Pastels and Soft Prints

Noted animal portraitist Teague captures the playful angst of the beloved Fifi by placing the animal in a natural Mary Kay Cosmetics Pink environment.  This helps to remove all doubt as to the sex of the poodle. No doubt Fifi's realistic facial expression can be attributed to her tightly bound ribbons atop chicken breast sized ears. Fifi's human-like eyes convey sorrow similar to the Keane waif paintings popular with young girls in the late 1960's.

However it is the thoughtful framing of this item, resplendent in a silver baroque frame, complete with engraved plate reading "Fifi", that elevates this whimsical piece to bad art masterpiece.

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Caesar, If I Die Tomorrow: A Guatemalan Rhapsody

Caesar, If I Die Tomorrow: A Guatemalan Rhapsody  

D.S. (aka 'The Goddess') Mikell, Artist

(Oil on Stretched Canvas 30"X36") mid 1990's

Made possible through a generous gift of the Brow459 Foundation

Using Gauguin's palette, and Hanna/ Barbera's technique -- the artist blends the possible with the inevitable and adds the need for self defense on this recycled canvas . A faceless Madonna watches over the acne scarred central figure -- who holding an as of yet unpainted item in his poised hands -- while the sin of drink, the fury of natures smoldering volcano, and the very real threat of flying cooking utensils threaten to upset this central American utopia.

The title of the work, so named by the artist, remains a cryptic enigma in our own time.

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