Chloe Piene

Chloe Piene is an American artist having German and Jewish parentage who is known for skeletal and morbid drawings.

This picture depicts human skull anatomies. I am quite fond of this livling anatomy.  It is interesting that the picture remains some organs of a living person such as eyes, ears, hairs and muscles arounnd the woman's neck, which renders her vivid. It remains me of a kind of blue x-ray glasses that can penetrate partial human bodies in a movie. I also like some details like these teeth and the nosebone that make the drawing a precise one.

Compare with the one I mentioned above, this one appears to be somewhat appalling because one of the characters is a mother who is usually viewed a caretaker becomes a creepy skeleton. What is worse, the mother is not a pure skeleton but looks like some kind of living zombie due to partial skin and her gesture and the child is definitely not a lovely one. Therefore, I am not fond of this one emotionally but I have to admit it has these unique traits.

The creature depicted in the picture looks exactly like a legendary unicorn except a redundant horn and wings or it can be recognized as a common mule simply. One thing I find a little weired is the lengths of its feet.  I feel the creature is standing on an inclined surface and it makes sense if the thing behind it can be regared as a trunk. This drawing does not contain obvious shadows like these illustrated above and as a result, it looks less three dimensional.