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Gradual sharpness
This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #7239 and the works of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso. Both of these artists are considered the founders of Cubism. This SupremePunk absorbed the color palette and the form of paintings by these artists in the 1910s. During this period of creativity, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso worked as one: for example, they simultaneously created similar works with the same names. Therefore, it is difficult to distinguish the influence of their creativity on this Punk.
Left: Georges Braque — Woman with a Mandolin, 1910
Although Picasso has become more famous than Braque, Georges Braque is no less an outstanding avant-garde artist. The works of these painters in the 1910s belong to analytical cubism. Analytical cubism can be compared to an origami sheet that has already been assembled once and is now dotted with curves and lines. If you try to make a figure out of a sheet again, you will get something sloppy, crooked, and only with the help of imagination reminiscent of the original idea. Similarly, analytical cubism is an attempt to create a well-known image from lines, the location of which the artist seems to have forgotten.
Pablo Picasso: Portrait of Fernande 1909, Head of a Woman 1909
Although Punk is a two-dimensional image, the rectangles superimposed on each other — the hero's facial features - create, if not a sense of volume, then a sense of layering. The volume in cubism can be found only in sculptures, for example, in the "Head of a Woman" by Pablo Picasso. The face of the girl — Fernanda Olivier - is made with sharp angular lines that distort the appearance of a person and deprive him of realism. Picasso tried to clothe Cubism in volume and created chaos out of bronze.
Ad Reinhardt — Untitled (Red and Gray), 1950
As for the contour of the Punk's head, its sharp and uneven silhouette resembles the early abstractions of Ad Reinhardt. They are very bright, colorful, and equally uneven, as they include regular shapes that, due to their saturation, form chaos on the canvas. Subsequently, his works became more restrained and orderly, until they reached a creative and philosophical apogee in a series of black paintings.
Andy Warhol — Little Electric Chairs
It is also worth paying attention to the background of SupremePunk. It consists of a gradual fading of gray into dusty pink from bottom to top. The moment of transition from gray to pink is depicted very sharply, which resembles an oversaturated image. Such elements are very memorable in a series of works by Andy Warhol depicting an electric chair in a huge number of different shades, which is characteristic of the concept of this artist. In all the photos, there is an electric chair in an empty room. The viewer can only guess whether this chair is waiting for another victim, or the one who was destined for this fate is already dead. The emptiness of the room, the absence of people heightens the existential horror. But when a person appears, as in this picture, this oversaturated transition of colors creates a creepy image of a Punk who either lives the last seconds of earthly life, or meets eternal life If there is such a thing at all

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