SupremePunk #123
Speed of Impale
This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #9924 and the work of Verena Loewensberg.If you carefully examine this image, you will notice that there is a repeating broken figure in it, with which the eyes of the Punk are depicted and with which the oval of the character's face is framed.
Verena Loewensberg — Untitled, 1980
This figure is found in the paintings of the Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg. Despite the fact that she is considered a representative of a particular art, there is a rhythm and poetics in her works, which became a reflection of her studies before becoming an artist: dance and textile craftsmanship. Contradictory figures interact in the works of Verena Loewensberg: round shapes coexist with irregular polygons, rectangles form broken compositions. Moreover, her color palette goes beyond the basic colors, including green and purple, mustard and pink. In one of her works, she created a completely identical figure, which was repeated by the author of SupremePunk in the above-mentioned details of the image, but in a different color scheme and with more details, if we talk about the background.
Pere Borrell del Caso — Escaping Criticism, 1874
Another detail of this Punk also attracts attention: in this image, the author created a frame, sharpening the character into these boundaries. The peak of the Iroquois Punk goes beyond this frame, emphasizing the non-comforist image of the hero, who seeks to go beyond the limits accepted by society. This can be understood both by the hairstyle of the character, and by the homage to the work of Verena Loewensberg, who also explored the rigid boundaries of a particular art and experimented with the shapes and colors available to her. The concept of the hero leaving the canvas is far from new. The most illustrative example of such a technique can be called "Escape from criticism" by the Spanish artist of the XIX century, Pere Borrel del Cazo, where the depicted young man is literally trying to escape from criticism, to escape beyond the canvas to hide from condemnation, assessments from the outside.
Matsumura Goshun — Cherry Blossoms, 1799
It is also important in the analysis of this SupremePunk that the author left a lot of untouched white space, resembling canvas or thick paper in structure. This manner resembles the approach of Japanese artists of the Shijo school to the image of the surrounding world. The founder of this school of painting is Matsumura Gosyun. He and his followers (for example, the Sea of Pines) they drew one object, be it a tree, a mountain or an animal, and practically did not create the context in which the object is located. Because of this, they got images-symbols that conveyed the spirit of the thing, and not the general atmosphere of what was happening. Taking into account this context, the viewer is already beginning to compare polygons-eyes and background with a shuriken, and empty space as a symbol of Punk's detachment from the world around him, his inability to join life and become a full-fledged member of a society subject to strict rules and outdated values.
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CryptoPunk #9924 that has been taken as a base
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