Sijun Forums :: View topic

BooMSticK · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 12:24 pm

very nice Sfr. Good to see you painting again, even though this has got to be the ugliest MF you have ever painted!

oh... and I would like to add 'poo eater' to that little list you got there... though I have no proof that Le pen really eats poo... hehe..

,Boom

sfr · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 11:32 pm

Jean-Marie Le Pen, being the respectable statesman he is, needs an official portrait. I'm sure he's glad I made him one, completely free!

I made this for kicks this afternoon, after I found a semi-rotting eggplant in my fridge and thought there was a certain resemblance...

Well, the caricature could be better for one thing (it doesn't look very much like him), but at least I somehow had lots of fun making this

(For the Americans: Le Pen is a French extreme right leader who's running for president, got a surprisingly high number of votes and managed to get into the second round of the election. The guy is a populist, racist, sexist, xenophobe, europhobe, homophobe, and was in charge of a brutal torture and murder squad in the Algerian war in 1957.)

Saffron

Gecko · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 11:44 pm

sounds like a worthy president candidate.

what I wanted to say is, the scribbly texture on the top half of his white :P shirt looks very, very delicious.
it's nice to see some of the old sijun people again. g'luck with whatever you've been doing lately.

toast! · Posted: Sat May 04, 2002 11:50 pm

saffron, that s brillant work, nice textures and colors, awesome style as always

Hope tomorrow this big piece of shit will be overhelmed by votes of people who believe in democraty and human rights.

Binke · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 4:41 am

hm...very interesting!

janne · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 5:32 am

hah, this is great. fittingly gross.

j

Novacaptain · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 6:38 am

I think it's really great that you're doing something with a political message. It's not common here to see art that makes a concious critique towards social or political issues. Very nice work, I love how you managed to make it look like traditional paint. Those colors are fantastic too

[ May 05, 2002: Message edited by: Novacaptain ]

Kari Christensen · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 6:44 am

Very cool! It looks like you took Francis Bacon's ideas and evolved them to a more realistic style. Did you do all the texturey paint strokes in Painter?

Lunatique · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 8:12 am

Gorgeous brush work.

Rhomb · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 8:20 am

Nice! Very cool brush work and colors.

Ville

pixelsoldier · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 9:19 am

Wonderful! Oh god how I hate Le Pen. I've been following the election in France via CNN.

I hate that guy.

toast! · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 10:09 am

yihaaaaa
Le pen has been kicked by the votes of french people !! 82 % for the other candidate ! thanks to god, France is not a fachist country

sfr · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 10:46 am

Thanks all! Le Pen seems to have lost the second round by a large margin - still, he had the same 18% of voters as before, that's quite much on its own...

Boom: I'm trying to start painting again, after this long break - let's see if I can keep it up, at least I posted in the speed painting thread today

Novacaptain: I don't really know, this picture is just a kind of mud throwing after all, it's not a very evolved political message... It would be more effective (and more difficult) to take a stance on the issues themselves, in some unexpected way - that would be good political art.

Kari C.: I didn't consciously think of Bacon, but you're right, there's a similarity (even though it's been a while since I've seen his works). Maybe he used vegetables as models too?

For the texture, I tried scanning the squashed eggplant after I had made the base painting. But it didn't come out well, the texture was too 3d so the scanner couldn't focus enough. I put some pieces of that scanning attempt as thin layers over parts of the image anyway, and then continued painting on top of that.

Saffron

[666]Flat · Posted: Sun May 05, 2002 9:59 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Novacaptain:
I think it's really great that you're doing something with a political message. It's not common here to see art that makes a concious critique towards social or political issues.

Sorry, but mockin' somebody by portraying as some kinda monster ain't no "concious critique". In fact the nazis used that method themselves.

sfr · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 1:17 am

quote:
Originally posted by [666]Flat:

Sorry, but mockin' somebody by portraying as some kinda monster ain't no "concious critique".

That's pretty much what I said myself, isn't it?

Saffron

[666]Flat · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 3:09 am

quote:
Originally posted by sfr:
That's pretty much what I said myself, isn't it?

Saffron

just wanted to emphasize the obvious, baybee

Novacaptain · Posted: Mon May 06, 2002 3:53 pm

Well I guess not but it's halfway there, I for one, am so alienated in relation to politics i wouldn't even know who/what to throw mud at in the firs place. At least you're showing an opinion. I still think it may have some symbolical message like "The man being elected is the equivalent to an eggplant in terms of morality". But who are we to judge the eggplants?

Do post more!