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| Les Demonzoids de Avondale acrylic and ink on paper on wood 23.5" X 24" benjamin harubin 2014 |
Each figure is depicted in a disconcerting confrontational manner and none are conventionally human. The beings appear as slightly menacing and rendered with angular and distorted body shapes. One is shown with an African mask-like face and three more with faces in the Infantile style of Harubin's native Long Island, giving them a savage aura. In this adaptation of Surrealism and abandonment of perspective in favor of a flat, two-dimensional picture plane, Harubin makes a radical departure from traditional Modern painting. The Post Apocalyptic work is widely considered to be seminal in the early development of both the New Synthesis and Post- Post Apocalyptic art. Demonzoids was revolutionary and controversial, and led to wide anger and disagreement, even amongst his closest associates and friends...
(...great artists steal copy).
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