Kitty BrophyOur next artist, Kitty Brophy, is really badass. She always knew that she was going to be a model and an artist living in New York – and she did just that. Between walking on runways in Paris, she created her vision of surreal ink drawings. Her early work from 1978 recalls Egon Schiele in the use of elongated human forms and preoccupation with nudity. As the years progressed, she added poetry to her drawings, my favourite personal being this one from 2015:
Its not easy having being a vagina
Somedays it seems
Everyone wants to go in me
Or come out of me
Destroy me
Worship me
Denigrate me
Glorify me
It can be a burden
Though ive never wanted
Anything other
Just that power
Ability
Desire
To fuck you yeah fuck you
Over
It perfectly encapsulates what these other artists also address in their work. From 2016 to 2019, she renounced her sketchy line work for a more graphic approach that almost seems to be a satire of soviet propaganda posters in her exclusive use of red, black and white. She replaces fascist slogans with sexual imagery of powerfully domineering women, with a few men sprinkled in here and there.