Brian DeYoung is a young illustrator from Park Ridge, Illinois who has just started creating art for the Wall Street Journal. He uses humor in his illustrations to make the audience think in a different way to understand their messages.
In this painting "Warheads," DeYoung makes an illustrative pun of the word "warhead," a warhead as an actual head. Using this, the man claims for peace when his hand clearly shows that peace is not what he is truly aiming for. The use of the warhead as a human head makes the desire for war much clearer; if he just had a typical human head, the illustration would be rather typical and unoriginal.
Another example by him is in the photo below (pardon the language), "Fuck You, I'm Fine," where the audience would expect a request for saving via an S.O.S, when in actuality the sender is, well, fine.
Post by Kevin Hu
In this painting "Warheads," DeYoung makes an illustrative pun of the word "warhead," a warhead as an actual head. Using this, the man claims for peace when his hand clearly shows that peace is not what he is truly aiming for. The use of the warhead as a human head makes the desire for war much clearer; if he just had a typical human head, the illustration would be rather typical and unoriginal.
Another example by him is in the photo below (pardon the language), "Fuck You, I'm Fine," where the audience would expect a request for saving via an S.O.S, when in actuality the sender is, well, fine.
Post by Kevin Hu