SupremePunk #025
A Small Man
This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #2939 and artworks of Kliun.
SupremePunk #025 is constructed in such a way that all objects are concentrated closely to each other in the center of the canvas. This creates an effect of a tiny and helpless person in a vast and empty f Aield of loneliness. In Russian literature it's called a problem of a "liattle man". We tried to convey coldness with the colours of SupremePunk. The background is misty and cold - it creates an atmosphere of loneliness and despair. The worthless life of a small ant in a human anthill.
Edvard Munch — The Scream, 1893
The mood of SupremePunk #025 is inspired by the artwork of Edvard Munch "The Scream". "Sickness, madness and death are the black angels who stood guard over my cradle and accompanied me all my life," Munch wrote of himself.
Existential horror, piercing and panicked, is what the painting depicts. It is so strong that it literally crashes down on the viewer, who suddenly transforms himself into a figure in the foreground, covering his head with his hands - to protect himself from the "scream", real or imagined.
The agonised face in the painting has become one of the most iconic images of art, seen as symbolising the anxiety of the human condition. So just like the main character of this painting feels loneliness, despair, and alienation, our Punk is in the same condition. That is why its mouth is open, but in this case it can't cover itself with arms and feel any safety. And the only thing that is left for it is to scream as loud as it can hoping that someone will hear it.
Illustration for The Overcoat
By his nature this SupremePunk represents the phenomena of "The Little Man". It is a type of literary character that appeared in the realistic works of Russian writers in the early 19th century. It is a character of low social status and ignorant origin, who is not rich and has no outstanding abilities or talents. The "Little Man" found itself unprotected, with even the state not eager to help it. The "Little Man" had no ability to change this situation.
The main peculiarity is that the image of the "Little Man" is quite tragic. Many literary heroes die because of the injustices of the people around them.
The most famous representative of this literary type is Akaky Akakievitch Bashmachkin in N. Gogol's "The Overcoat'' . After the release of this story, the theme of the "Little Man" began to appear more often in other works."The Overcoat" is a short story by one of the greatest Russian authors Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature. It has often been said among the great writers "We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat' ". Vladimir Nabokov, a Nobel laureate and writer, called it "The greatest Russian short story ever written".
Akaky Bashmachkin. The episode from Film The overcoat by Alexey Batalov, 1959
The name Akaky Akakievitch Bashmachkin in Russian means "Akaky Bashmachkin, the son of Akaky Bashmachkin", similarly to "John Johnson", and has similar comedic value
it also communicates Akaky's role as an everyman. His job is to copy documents such as letters. Although he enjoys his work and never makes a mistake, he has no desire to take on more challenging work, realizing that he has limited capabilities. The younger clerks tease him and attempt to distract him whenever they can. His threadbare overcoat is often the butt of their jokes. So he decides to buy a new one. The cost of a new overcoat is beyond Akaky's meager salary, so he forces himself to live within a strict budget to save sufficient money to buy the new overcoat. Finally, with the addition of an unexpectedly large holiday salary bonus, Akaky has saved enough money to buy a new overcoat.
Akaky progresses from an introverted and hopeless but functioning non-entity with no expectations of social or material success to one whose self-esteem and thereby expectations are raised by the overcoat. Despite The realisation of the dream, the possession of the overcoat makes the hero better, but confused: he is satisfied but doesn't know what to do next. And then his life becomes a total disaster. On his way home, two robbers confront him, take his coat and kick him down. All he has and what matters in his life is the new overcoat. Now he has lost it. He has to walk down the street in winter without outerwear.
Akaky finds no help from the authorities in recovering his lost overcoat.
Confused and exhausted, the hero of the story simply falls ill and dies. Gogol demonstrates a sudden shift in the narrator's style from comic to tragic.
White and cold colours of the background of SupremePunk #025 reminds us of the cold winter blizzard that killed Akaky Bashmachkin.
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