Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: animation, darkness and light, food, media, short animated film, surrealism, svankmajer
svankmajer is from czech republic. he is a versatile artist whose creativity includes various media. here are some examples from his well-known animations where he reflects his surrealist tendencies. the cooperation between the imagination and the manner and the technical preferences works in a quite impressive way.
the story of a man who is the creator and the creature at the same time:
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: artistic attack, eric pougeau, french artist, marquis de sade, media, morality, television, violence, William Blake
lately i’ve been wandering around the works of several contemporary french artists and i recently met this quite inspirational and out of type artist named Eric Pougeau. here i display a couple of samples from his serie called “Oh the guilt”. his main concern about these works was about violence. Pougeau mentions in an interview that the societies have been so familiar with the violence through the means of media, especially focusing on television that they became indifferent to violence – in another words we all began to digest the violence we’ve been witnessing all day on TV or in newspapers which is a serious danger in social terms. and that brings about the question of morality into the scene. he reclaims that aggrandized moral values cause the evil in humans by supporting this idea with a quote from William Blake. and i feel the need to share it here in order to sum up the issue: “Prisons are built with the stones of law. Brothels with the stone of religion.”
in his works we see how he reflected these ideas into his art. i tried to translate the french names of art works into english and i think you’ll get the meaning and conception immediately.
- here there is a picture of a little cute boy written below “Do not look for me, i’m dead.”
- a tombstone written “son of a bitch” on it
- a casual note from a mother to her kids that says: ” My dears, when mom and dad are dead, you will be all alone, and then you’re gonna die too. see you tonight, mom.”
- a hospital named “Marquis de Sade”
- a bottle of perfume “for mom” filled with urine.
and so on.
it’s obvious that Pougeau aimed at shocking our moral sensibilities by attacking at several conceptions that are accepted as “sacred” and “innocent” by the societies, such as family, maternity, children, death, health.. which could be interpreted as a call for a reaction to the real violence that actually occurs in every single moment of our lives. trying to create the “impossible” (a hospital named ‘Marquis de Sade’ for example) he might be indicating a turn to the possibility of consciousness.
