Monkey Mop Boy (Daniel Bainbridge and Erin Jones)
I saw this painting/collage on exhibition at Outlaw Gallery's "PREHISTORIC" Music and Arts Festival last weekend. I immediately recognized the composition as an ode to Francisco Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son (1819-23). Rather than a gory depiction of a monstrous Saturn chomping the bones and flesh of a corpse, this collaborative duo's rendition shows a cartoonish Saturn coyly protecting a doll or excitably sucking on a novelty popsicle. Although Goya's version is pained and dramatic, Bainbridge and Jones have produced a comical spin on this epic tragedy.
