Constructive Abandonment

by Michael Dumontier

From two of the founding members of the influential collective, the Royal Art Lodge

Constructive Abandonment is a series of small paintings featuring surreal vignettes with animals and children weighed down by the pressures of life. With absurdly comedic interactions, the text varies from straightforward to even more abstract and nonsensical than the images that it accompanies. The paintings reference child’s play or literature and some are seemingly without reference, completely untethered.

Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber are founding members of the Royal Art Lodge. Since the dissolution of the influential Winnipeg art collective, Dumontier and Farber continue to work and create art together. Constructive Abandonment is a partnership not only of two of today’s great contemporary artists but also of cohesive dissonance. Pages that could be forgettable one-liners become investigations into intellect and our ability to draw correlations between contradictory elements in a single image.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Art, Comics

Hardcover

First published May 24, 2011

Reviews

[Lily :-) · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favorites are the manatee nurse and the snakes singing in stereo 😇

[StrictlySequential · Rating 2 out of 5]

I enjoyed the goofiness of some funny ones like "The African Fellatiating House Frog" but the vast majority were complete nonsense to me.