Pawel Kuczynski

I stumbled across this guy randomly on this internet article:  http://sobadsogood.com/2013/11/19/art-designed-to-make-think-deeply-about-the-world-by-pawel-kuczynski/   I recommend taking a gander at it as Pawel Kuczynski may have just became one of my favorite satirical illustrators.  Not only does he do a very good job of instigating discussion in each piece but his illustrations are beautifully done and simple enough to understand for anyone's viewing pleasure.  He also touches on many, and I mean, many different topics all around the world.  He's covered many different situations and in many different forms.  War, hunger, politics, slavery, social media, water crisis, religion, medical issues, death, life, or just plain art.  The artist does a very good job of using very little elements in his work.  There may be two contrasting points simplified to two objects, it could be more relative to the works.  He also usually places the images on a subtle background with nothing to distract you from the topic at hand.  Most of the images from the internet article above are done in this way.  I will post a couple here and give a short analysis of each.  The first image is of a man waiting with the door open to a limousine.  Out of the limousine comes the red carpet that leads to the pigs at the feeding trough making a mess.  Now, this image can relate to multiple contexts.  It can be an image relative to the wealthy who can afford such eloquence and luxury and how they are greedy people.  Gluttony is also a topic at hand that relates well to greed.  If the option is viable to eat so much why not do it.  If that was the case it could be contrasting to world hunger in other places.  In another case it could represent politics.  The pigs would represent politicians who worry only about themselves while the rest of us waits on them to make up their mind.  The limo driver, who is doing his job, waits patiently for them to finish before his job can be deployed.  These are only instances that I could draw from the image but it is represented visually as a stimulant to our minds to bring those issues about to ourselves.  What is it that we see? Also, in relation to what I stated above about visual analysis, notice the minimal elements and background.  Pigs and Trough, Limo Driver and Limo, Red Carpet.  5 elements, but the curiosity that it stimulates is still present.  Another one I liked was the one at the bottom, which was  a man in a suit talking into a plethora of microphones atop a podium.  The wires of the mics eventually become a pipe and the pipe leaks out into a drain.  My guess is that the man is a politician based on his attire and the multiple mics represented.  Usually a man of that importance would have many news stations, radio stations, and other journalist branches wanting to hear him.  However, everything the man is saying is being fed through the wires into the pipe that leaks into the drain.  A reference towards the idea that politicians say a lot of things that are never fulfilled or are all just lies.  Waste is basically the main concept I get from it.  We waste a lot of time putting our hopes into politicians who never fulfill their promises.  Again, the image is laid over a simple background and foreground with few elements at play but the visual stimulus is still as strong.  Pawel does these things very well and there are many across the internet if you find yourself interested in more.  I will be blogging soon comparing one of his works to another work with a similar topic.  Until next time.