Playboy Bunnies are most likely associated with the popular men’s lifestyle magazine and are depicted as beautiful, sexy women. However, in artist Taylor Marie Prendergast’s ‘Playboy series’, they are portrayed differently.
The female figures in Prendergast’s series are painted in revealing outfits and posing sexily, but their expressions are gloomy or blank. It is a deliberate move by the artist to “push and pull” the viewers.
According to the artist, she is “challenging the contemporary zeitgeist by incorporating historically loaded images and abstracted figurations. The juxtaposition of the glamorous and the repulsive are necessary tools in order to create this reaction in the audience”.
“At first the piece entices the viewer with aesthetically pleasing elements, and as the viewers settles into the work they’re confronted with disturbing details,” she added.
Check out the unusual artworks below:
[via Beautiful Decay, images from Taylor Marie Prendergast]