#wayne white

[shiftythrifting]

Submission from @doctorbeverlycrusher

[baebeylik]

Fuck You Invasion by Wayne White. American, 2013.

Photo credit to TheWatcherontheWall on Imgur.

[austinkleon]

I use humor because I think it’s one of the more effective ways of communicating the truth. A lot of times truth-telling can be kind of preachy or didactic or self-righteous and it turns people off. And it’s just not effective. But humor just activates everything. It just makes it more enjoyable, more accessible. It’s something I kind of had to find out the hard way, through trial and error. For years I thought of myself as very serious. I wanted to be a very serious, deep artist, as all young people do. But then when I really examined it, and told the truth about myself, I found that humor was something I just kind of instinctively went toward. That word comes up a lot with me—instinctive. It’s what I follow. I follow instincts instead of intellectual ideas. I really don’t think the artist is an intellectual. I believe that the artist is a set of nerves, nerve endings. That’s what an artist is.

Wayne White

[yewknee]

The Artists and Cartoonists Who Designed Pee-wee Herman’s World

at the very least, scroll through the article's images.

[lionfloss]

WAYNE WHITE

[garethschweitzer]

Wayne White

[sculpturegallery]

Wayne White - The Louvin Brothers 2014 - Cardboard - wood - acrylic

[supersonicart]

Wayne White.

Brand new paintings by acclaimed artist Wayne White, currently on view with Joshua Liner Gallery.

The artist, art director, illustrator, and puppeteer, who designed sets and puppets for “Pee-wee's Playhouse,” imbues his text-based works with sardonic humor and distinct color combinations. For this ongoing series, which he began in the 2000s, White paints anachronistic text and phrases onto vintage offset lithographs, seamlessly integrating the letters into bucolic landscapes and seascapes. The seemingly random juxtaposition of text and vintage imagery is thought-provoking and almost always humorous.

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