Moca museum amsterdam4/30/2023 ![]() Lincoln, with his right hand raised to spank Trump, furs his eyebrows in disgust as he punishes the seemingly unbothered former president. Climbing into viewers’ minds, in the darkest and most unsettling corners of our own apocalyptic fantasies, Beeple brings to life the mental mayhem society has endured throughout the pandemic.įor instance, in one piece of the Everydays – Raw collection, a naked Donald Trump with a baby’s body is bent over the knee of Abraham Lincoln, with his red bottom pointed upward. ![]() Sold for $69 million, this JPEG compilation shatters notions of fixed art while corrupting traditional schools of thought with his apocalyptic visions.īeeple depicts greedy naked presidents, evil cartoons and gory science experiments that all illustrate a fictional future destroyed by society and politics. As one of the developers of the “everyday” movement in 3D graphics, Beeple has created a digital art piece daily for the last thirteen years, titling it The First Five Thousand Days. Mike Winkelmann, a computer science programmer better known as Beeple, transformed his hobby of drawing into a multimillion-dollar digital art career through these very creations. A non-fungible token is a digital asset that represents real-world objects such as art, but are bought and sold online, according to Forbes. It wouldn’t be the Moco Museum without also dedicating a section to NFT installations. The artwork, although a jumbled, crowded and headache inducing image upon first glance, shows the reality of a polarized nation - it’s a jumbled, crowded and headache inducing mess. Stacked on either side as if to prepare for battle, the crowds are signaling and yelling toward the other side with posters, vigil candles, flags and guns in hand. Gun control advocates are stacked like bleachers behind the left side of the table as gun rights supporters stand on the right with rifles aimed in the air. In one piece, titled The Gun Chronicles: A Story of America, JR cuts out a print of a conference table surrounded by political officials. “Art can change the way we see the world.” “Art is not supposed to change the world, to change practical things, but to change perceptions,” JR was quoted in the museum exhibit. ![]() His work serves as a conversation starter for building awareness around global injustices. French photographer and filmmaker JR focuses on portraying new perspectives around complex social issues that plague various communities. ![]() This underscores the disproportionate weight put on today’s youth compared to those in power who often go unscathed for their mistakes.Īrtistic commentaries are not only subject to people-versus-power narratives. The oil painting, in its collage-like composition, depicts a teen burdened and fatigued by societal expectations of perfection. The Kid also calls to attention the double standard for those imposing the rules while illustrating the hypocrisy of punishing someone who is trying to learn the ropes of life. The images show an exhausted teenager with the American flag weighing on his shoulders. Two images of the same person from different angles are layered just over one another on the left side of Pinocchio. Pinocchio is painted face down, drowning in a pool of water. In I Saw The Sun Begin To Dim, The Kid extracts new meaning from the tale of Pinocchio, a coming of age story where Pinocchio is punished for his childish mistakes. More specifically, The Kid reimagines polarizing social issues to illustrate the thin and progressively blurring line between innocence and corruption facing youth. While Banksy’s subversive commentary highlights the idiocy embedded in certain social events, other artists such as Robin Kid, also known as The Kid, allude to the social friction that stems from dissent in democracy.
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