Today, his Carnival Time (1990) feels eerily apropos in the DIA's collection, as the skewered heads of crooked politicians are coupled with the mercenary icons of big business, a voracious sow, and composite figures of the dissenting Motor City punk scene. (dailyserving.com)
Starting from photographs she takes of people in her community, Laughlin converts the photos into composite figures and generates a line drawing, a coloring book template, for painterly exploration. (sulfurstudios.org)
Here, you can see that some of the characters in the comics began life as «Exquisite Corpses,» the collaborative, composite figure drawings favored by the Surrealists. (artspace.com)