A Revelatory Alex Da Corte Survey Finds the Dark Side in His Buoyant Art

A Revelatory Alex Da Corte Survey Finds the Dark Side in His Buoyant Art

Most kids who are into Disney—which is to say, most kids in general—typically surround themselves with representations of Disney Princesses. But when Alex Da Corte made his first painting, at age 12, for the walls of childhood bedroom, he instead depicted the characters who antagonize these Princesses. Rather than sleeping beneath Cinderella, her evil stepmother loomed above his feet at night. A smiling Ursula appeared to emerge from a nearby wi…