Nice Teddy
This piece was done around 2006. I posted this early on in my steemit journey, but nobody actually saw it, so I would like to reintroduce it.
Many artists don't like to tell you the "meaning" behind their pieces, and leave it up for interpretation, but this for me came from a very specific frustration, and therefore has a very defined meaning to me. In short, the idea I was trying to convey is that innocence is dead, and we as a society just stand by and watch it happen. It is the same idea behind the traffic jam that follows an accident on the side of the road, everybody slows down to try and see, to catch a glimpse of the carnage. It is the same thing that drives people to watch WORLDSTAR or Jerry Springer, lives are potentially ruined, and the average person cares about the potential entertainment value, and if it is not entertaining enough, they simply find something else.
The goal stylistically was to show a strong balance in the frame and highlight the bear. The cute/creepy vibe is very intentional, and the yellow blobs are meant to vary between aloof and amused.
Why the french fries watching a teddy bear suicide ? You are dark saywha !
It is a statement about corporate America and how they profiteer from selling other's misery.
But they are the best at it, though!
was it a suicide though?
A December sacrificial lamb?
or bear?
I think innocence is an illusion. We keep our kids locked away from the world these days, not knowing the realities of life. Are they losing their innocence when they're exposed to the truth of the world, or are they breaking through the lies we tell them?
I'd say there is a happy medium between where you don't throw your children to the wolves, but teach them the truth, and how to guard their minds from trash
This is true that everyone is born innocent, but their innocence must die, it might take time, but the time will come. and when that happens, people have no right to judge them for not being innocent. the person passing looking at the accident is not there to be entertained, people are there for the empathy, they almost always imagine the same thing happening to themselves as the injured person.
I'm going to quote GRRM for no reason, or maybe this is related somehow, idk, you figure this out. :P
The truth is what? what's innocence? Whats trash?
:rolls eyes:
Perhaps the truth of the world is the illusion and the purity of a child's innocence the truth. Maybe enlightenment is being able to unlearn the illusions we have made a part of us and return to the pure, childlike state where thought, word and action are an unconflicted path.
https://web.stanford.edu/class/ihum40/cave.pdf
Thank you for showing this......I see a whole different picture after reading your blog.....
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Its definitely startling. Hangings are always startling, disturbing. Its a cartoon but this like this happened to real people and other humans watched. Caricaturizing it seems weird to me but i still find the work skillfull and well done.
Of course they happened. Would you like some of my macabre art based on humans instead of softened with a metaphor? I have that in my library too and Id be happy to oblige.
I don't think this work is caricaturing the action it depicts. That is, I don't see this as an exaggeration at all. Especially given the artist's description. If anything the impact of what's shown is softened by the choice of colors and the expression that's accomplished in using something that is inherently non-violent, a child's toy, to depict something that otherwise would be.
People see terrible things and there is a wide array of reactions and I think it was captured well. I don't know if I agree with the artist's contempt for those onlookers in the general sense, but externally it would absolutely appear this way, and in the limited scope of the explanation it is fully appropriate.
I just meant that its a cartoon representation of a horrific act. Im simply commentong on the peice that i found interesting and done well.
Ah, I see. A caricature isn't a cartoon, it's an exaggerated representation, though often cartoons are used to portray caricature. By calling it a caricature you're not calling it a cartoon, you're actually calling it an exaggeration.
Ah. My mistake. I meant the opposite.
What a brilliant piece of work!! I love the expressions of the yellow blobs. All round, just a great piece which summarises the majority of humanity very well. Gg :):)
Wow, this is strong, very strong art. Teddy representing innocence is really a great concept. And it is true, that for some reason, we do enjoy bad news, witnessing kills or even rapes. Probably that's why we love Game of Thrones so much....
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