SupremePunk #048
Installation
El Lisitsky — Proun 1 D, 1919
This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #9097 and artworks of Lisitsky. Lazar Lisitsky was practically the first Suprematist to dare to work with three-dimensional figures. So we decided to minimize their number in order to emphasize the minimalism of the original works and to create the effect of the birth of the style. Despite the fact that the whole composition seems to be made in three dimensions, there are flat objects on it. This is Lisitsky's inimitable handwriting. He not only skillfully combined objects of different dimensions on one canvas, but also was not afraid of superimposing them on each other, as if colliding two incompatible worlds.
Illustration for "A Hundred years of solitude"
Very similar ideas and manners can be traced in another master of his genre, whose works we were just as much inspired by - Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He is the founder of a unique and one of the most memorable genres in literature - magical realism. In this genre, the author in the same way collides two completely different worlds: the world we are familiar with, the real world, and the fantastic events that occur in it. This Punk was very much inspired by the work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez "One Hundred Years of Solitude". In which this genre revealed itself most fully.
Illustration for "A Hundred years of solitude"
And paying tribute to this amazing work, great genre and genius author, we tried all kinds of ways to collide the incompatible in one work. First, the confrontation of white and black: two bold stripes in opposite parts of the painting seem to divide the entire canvas into two parts, two opposing worlds, between which there is a perpetual enmity. These stripes also form a kind of gradient, which creates a kind of direction in which one can move when looking at the canvas. It is important to note another notable feature of this work here. The fact is that if we mark with lines the places where objects cluster on the canvas, this peculiar skeleton will coincide with the structure of the Buendia family lineage described in One Hundred Years of Solitude.
Illustration for "A Hundred years of solitude"
This refers to the dawn and dusk of the city of Macondo described in the novel. There was an era of calm calm, a banana fever with the rush of technology, production, capital, and years of rain that led to the desolation of the city and its gradual disappearance. The drops of black paint are just a reminder of the years of rain that washed all life from the city. The golden earring, like a mark on the city's history, is reminiscent of the color of a banana peel and signifies that very banana fever.
And secondly, it is the combination of objects of different dimensions in the same work. The flat figures and backgrounds give everything in the rest of the Punk the effect of incompatibility and inconsistency.
The glasses were made transparent
intentionally, to create the effect
of old mirrors that hung in the
bedroom on the ceiling at
Aureliano II's house,
symbolizing the
apogee of vulgarity and
debauchery that swept
into town.
Distribution of the "mass" of the SupremePunkNo.48
Abel and Kain
The smoke from the cigarette was deliberately directed downward, referring to biblical scenes of sacrifice. It was believed that if the smoke from the sacrifice went down, the sacrifice was not pleasing to God. This is what happened to Cain and Abel in the Bible-two brothers, sons of Adam and Eve. Abel was a shepherd of sheep and as a sacrifice he slaughtered his best sheep. Cain was a farmer, and his sacrifice was in the form of harvested fruit. And when Abel put his sacrifice on the fire, the smoke from it went up (as if to God), but Cain's began to swirl and came down. And jealous of God's favor and jealous of his brother, he killed him.
Just as all that the city of Macondo,
which had produced so many
miracles, had created, it
turned out not to please
God - his "sacrifice" was
not accepted. And the city
was wiped off the face of
the earth forever.
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CryptoPunk #9097 that has been taken as a base
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