I was in markets in Melbourne a while ago and some guy was selling prints of these paintings of girls with huge blue eyes. I remember seeing them before, I believe they’re fairly well known. And I can’t remember if they all have blue eyes, but they all have massive eyes. And I can’t for the life of me remember the name of the artist. Does anyone know? I know this isn’t being very descriptive at all, but I can’t really remember anything else about them.
I vaguely remember a cartoon in Playboy where an artist is painting a nude. The model has huge brown eyes, and the aureoles on her breasts look exactly like her eyes.
These pieces are known collectively as “googly-eyed” art. (Kitsch, really.) The thing is, they’re immensely collectible and can make great investments. I remember reading a few years ago that the guy who records under the band name “Eels” is an obsessive collector (and that some of his fans have sent him googly-eyed stuff out of sheer fan-love).
I’ve got a good-quality reproduction of one. Not a Keane, just a knockoff, but it’s a technically competent work of a googly-eyed cat caught in the rain. Scrawny little body soaked through, and a huge, distended head, upturned in a pleading expression with googly eyes like saucers, and absolutely miserable. It never fails to cheer me up.
OOOOPS I forgot some of his painting aren’t work safe. The painting on the first click is fine, but a few in the galleries are not work safe. Maybe a mod could change that link to just his name for me?
