
Screenprint in colours on wove paper.
Hand-signed and numbered.
'Dissected Companion (Black)' by KAWS is a screen-print from 2006, measuring 50 × 50 cm, from a hand-numbered edition. Set against a dark grey ground, KAWS's signature Companion figure stands split down its vertical axis: the left half rendered as a flat black silhouette with a crossed-out eye, while the right half exposes a graphic interior — pink brain matter, green musculature, yellow viscera, and blue forms rendered in the visual language of anatomical illustration. The work belongs to KAWS's systematic reworking of pop-culture icons — the Companion being his ongoing reinterpretation of Mickey Mouse, stripped of its wholesome associations. The dissection format, which KAWS extended across sculptures and prints throughout the mid-2000s, literalises the tension between the figure's cartoon exterior and an imagined inner life, using the flat, high-contrast aesthetics of street-art and commercial graphics.
Dissected Companion (Black), 2006
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Screenprint in colours on wove paper.
Hand-signed and numbered.
'Dissected Companion (Black)' by KAWS is a screen-print from 2006, measuring 50 × 50 cm, from a hand-numbered edition. Set against a dark grey ground, KAWS's signature Companion figure stands split down its vertical axis: the left half rendered as a flat black silhouette with a crossed-out eye, while the right half exposes a graphic interior — pink brain matter, green musculature, yellow viscera, and blue forms rendered in the visual language of anatomical illustration. The work belongs to KAWS's systematic reworking of pop-culture icons — the Companion being his ongoing reinterpretation of Mickey Mouse, stripped of its wholesome associations. The dissection format, which KAWS extended across sculptures and prints throughout the mid-2000s, literalises the tension between the figure's cartoon exterior and an imagined inner life, using the flat, high-contrast aesthetics of street-art and commercial graphics.
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What is Comic Strip Art?
Comic strip art refers to artwork that utilizes the subject matter and commercial printing techniques found in comic strips. In the 1960s, a group of artists began creating paintings that incorporated Ben-Day dots—commonly used in comics and advertising—to produce highly graphic designs in bright colors, using traditional art media.

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Dissected Companion (Black), 2006
50 x 50 cm






























































































