SupremePunk #146
The Dance of Past and Present
This SupremePunk is inspired by CryptoPunk #7603, cave paintings and the works of Joan Miro.
Joan Miró is a 20th century Catalan artist. His works are abstract, leaning toward surrealism, and his style is inspired by children's drawings.
Joan Miro — The Nightingale's Song at Midnight and the Morning Rain, 1940
For example, the elements in «Midnight Nightingale Song and Morning Rain» - part of the Constellations series of works created in 1940-1941 inspired by the night and the academic music of Bach and Mozart - clearly resemble children's drawings with their uneven lines, skewed stars, and many additional doodles unrelated to the main theme of the depiction. The surrealistic features of this work are reflected precisely in these additional elements, from which transparent figures and faces are formed.
The author of this Punk creates a similar tenor by varying the color palette of the image, darkening the reds and blues and replacing white with yellow. In addition, he adds accents such as dots running along lines not previously seen in the works of Joan Miró. The connection with primitive art in this Punk is a red thread from Joan Miró, who himself drew inspiration from rock art. In the visual language, this manifests itself in the background on which the main figures of the works are located. The artists make it visually rough, heterogeneous, with Joan Miró using natural colors: stony gray, grassy, brown. This refers the viewer to the rock paintings in caves such as Laas Gaal and Cueva de las Manos.
Laas Geel
Laas Geel is a cave in Somaliland in which drawings dating back 3,000 years have been found. The depictions of animals and people are very primitive, but give an understanding of the attitude of the ancient peoples of Africa to certain animals and their way of life. The drawings are disproportionate and somewhat exaggerated, which makes them akin to child art. The coloring of rock paintings is limited to shades of brick colors, white and black.
Cueva de las Manos
Cueva de las Manos is a "Cave of hands" in southern Argentina. It is known primarily for the 13,000-year-old images of human hands left on the walls of the cave as a rite of initiation. The cave is literally covered with stencils of palms that cover other images, such as hunting scenes.
These rough and unrealistic images go as far as the abstract divorces in the works of Joan Miró and this SupremePunk. Only this Punk goes even further away from plausibility, adding unnatural blues and yellows to the background palette, colors that primitive artists did not have access to.
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