Kusama's drawings both illustrate and interpret Andersen's story, bringing it to terrifying life, and Andersen's words lend narrative content to Kusama's landscapes of unblinking eyes, curling tendrils and disembodied profiles. (artbook.com)
Although Kusama previously illustrated a 2012 edition of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, her marker drawings for The Little Mermaid are more enigmatic, even sinister, packed with unblinking eyes and tentacled creatures swirling in a hallucinatory underwater world. (artsy.net)
In fact the direct, unblinking stare of Warhol's subjects, who are framed head - on in direct confrontation with the camera, is initially more withholding than revealing. (dailyserving.com)