I don’t think any other artist has captured the vulnerability, or self-loathing of the male sex more accurately than Charlie White‘s Understanding Joshua series.
Check out his segment on PBS’s art series, EGG.
I’ve found a few more images from the collection:
There’s Cocktail Party,
Fantasy,
Getting Lindsay Linton,
Her Place,
Ken’s Basement,
and something whose title remains unknown to me. (NSFW)
October 25th, 2004 at 11:10 pm
Way to kill Fraggle Rock, cookie.
October 25th, 2004 at 11:33 pm
Actually, I think you just conjoured a bigger horror with the thought of Jim Henson having anything to do with Joshua.
October 26th, 2004 at 3:08 am
Oh, you bastard.
This is really creeping me out.
October 28th, 2004 at 3:11 pm
I like it. I don’t completely get it, but I like it.
August 18th, 2006 at 7:30 am
some of the greatest things i have ever seen. i am simultaneously horrified and aroused. more please. fuck it, i want movies, action figures, lunchboxes, breakfast cereals of Joshua.
August 15th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
That last picture is called “Sherri’s Living Room”
September 26th, 2008 at 12:23 am
Man! Had no idea what these pictures were from, I kept running into them, thanks.
I’d never seen that last one – the rest freak me out, but that last one made me feel bad for the little guy. I had the feeling the scene had something to do with an inability to perform <:/
March 18th, 2009 at 4:53 am
[...] is from artist Charlie White’s series Understanding Joshua, which apparently is all about “the vulnerability and self-loathing of the male sex”. [...]