Trevor Brown. What can I say about him? Well, I’ll start with: he is pretty much the epitome of the nude/erotic child meets darkness/corruption trend in underground art. He also (I believe) coined the phrase ‘baby art’ or ‘baby doll art’, the modern day equivalent of the big-eyed waif trend of the 70s. In fact, his website is named after it. Brown’s stuff is by turns disturbing, amusing, erotic and colorful, but love it or hate it, it is always interesting. And, I must say, it is largely because of Brown that I began to get really interested in the contemporary love/hate relationship with the erotic child in art, because I think it underscores something incredibly important about the society and culture we live in and where it’s heading. But that’s a topic for another day.
Trevor Brown – Black Angel
Trevor Brown – Bloodsucker – Forbidden Fruit (1996)
Trevor Brown – Bondage Bear – Rubber Doll (2005)
Trevor Brown – Chicken Pox
Trevor Brown – Height Adjustable Collar
Trevor Brown – Infinity – Li’l Miss Sticky Kiss (2002)
Trevor Brown – Nazis Are Sexy – Li’l Miss Sticky Kiss (2002)
Trevor Brown – Nursie
Trevor Brown – Penis Pixie
Trevor Brown – Pink Transfusion
Trevor Brown – Piss Fairy
Trevor Brown – Playground Sex
Trevor Brown – Toys
Trevor Brown – Xmas – My Alphabet (1998)
Trevor Brown – (Title Unknown) (1)
Trevor Brown – (Title Unknown) (2)
Trevor Brown – Baby Art (Official Site)
Comments:
From Bill Tree on October 29, 2011
YUP!
I own a pink terrycloth cover version of Little Miss Sticky Kiss, and a signed, black rubber cover version of Rubber Doll.
Though, really, it’s not my favorite little girl art. For me…bouguereau.
From pipstarr72 on October 29, 2011
Speaking of Bouguereau, I have some interesting Bouguereau-related stuff coming up next month.
And no, it’s not anything by Bouguereau . . . exactly. Ha ha, now I’ll get you to guessing . . .
From Ron on May 19, 2012
Brown also composed some Alice-based images. One I find compelling is Alice lifting a sweating Humpty-Dumpty off the ground.
From pipstarr72 on May 19, 2012
Yes, I know. I have what began as a monthly feature called Eye on Alice, where I feature Alice images by theme. In the future I will make some posts on the darker side of Alice, for which I’ve been saving the Trevor Brown Alice material.
The picture with the schoolgirl and the pistol reminds me of Hit Girl (Mindy Macready) from the comic book (by Mark Millar) and the 2010 movie Kick-Ass.
I freely admit I like strong independent women and girl characters.
JR
Thank you for your comment. Kick-Ass was one of the topics that was supposed to be covered by Pip since he is a comic book fan. He told me about the movie and I liked it. I may have to do some perfunctory post on that subject at some point. -Ron
Although I don’t pretend to understand Trevor Brown and his overt fetishistic style, it does have an aesthetic appeal beyond the masochism displayed, so much so I got myself a copy of his book ‘Alice’ signed by the man himself no less.
It maybe the empathy I feel for those girls that heightens my affection for them
It is exactly that ambiguity that lends appeal to the work. I agree that the images have a certain charm despite their extreme bizarreness. Pip analyzes this to some degree in his series on ‘Subliminal Sexuality’. -Ron