Artist Reveals What’s Wrong With Our Modern Society In These 32 New Satirical Illustrations
Art is not just about beauty. One of its greatest powers is precisely the ability to reveal the realities of the world without having to use absolutely any words, thus crossing the borders of language limitations.
Polish illustrator, Pawel Kuczynski's work does exactly that. In an intelligent and creative way, the artist addresses social, political, and economic issues of global importance. Ridiculing our obsessive relationship with the virtual world, he opens up a series of questions. Pawel's work has been previously featured on Bored Panda and you can find more of his illustrations by clicking here, here, here, here, and here.
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Maybe it means how many women are still oppressed? But I don't get why she is sailing on top of them?
No it's not. In Iran, women don't have that decision. It is about Iran, not about some woman in a more liberal nation wanting to wear her hijab.
Load More Replies...how peoples lives are just numbers and statistics to the people in charge
Thank you. Everyone gets mad at: me bc I don't support the military and thats exactly why. I Appreciate the validation
Load More Replies...There's actually a lot going on here. The white dove (Peace) is mechanical and is being "recharged" by the child (innocence, ignorance). The soldiers are all the same, yet fighting each other (world unity vs. patriotism/nationalism). That's what I see.
Different interpretations, it would be interesting to know what the artist had in mind.
Load More Replies...Baby doesn't need a diaper, because he/she is not real, it's art!
Load More Replies...Maybe it symbolizes how the armed services defend the innocent so they can have peace but those they're defending are too ignorant to see it and treat it like a game. The standing solider has it's back to the kid like it's defending it from the other soldiers. The kid is playing with a toy dove, the dove being the symbol for peace, but their little helmet has slid down to hide their eyes, making it so they can't see what they're doing or what the army men are doing
The internet just makes it easier to find people who are shitty.
Load More Replies...a ton of trash gets put into the bag from mankind - what are rules for if no one follows them
With the current inflation rates it will soon be cheaper to heat up by burning notes than to pay your energy bill.
Thanks to corporations, specifically in the energy sector, making record profits.
Load More Replies...You completely misinterpreted that
Load More Replies...tRUMP raised the national debt, as all repukes do, by his crazy spending. Jet jaunts to play golf, his brain-dead kids flying all over the world to kill endangered animals. His magnificent wall that was a total flop, etc.
Load More Replies...Why Putin... Why?! You are pointlessly destroying countless lives and families! I. Hate. Him.
Know what the difference is between Hitler and Putin? Hitler was taller...
I know theres something deep down that really troubles him and why he attacked them...I just have a feeling...
I feel bad for Ukraine and the citizens of Russia. It's a whole mess, and this a*****e should burn.
The WEF & Joe Biden are responsible for this waaay more than Putin. Until people have had enough of the corruption & money laundering, we will continue sliding faster and faster into poverty. Right thru 'socialism' & head first into communism. Wake the eff up!!!
Damn boomer I bet you still believe millennials are young kids.
Load More Replies...This is an amazing depiction of what life is like in the US. I cannot speak for other countries , but the same people that have ruined your life/ made life much more difficult with their policies will sure be trying to talk to the younger generation about how great they are.
And he's doing his preaching about being great over the graves of the ancestors who's lives he ruined
Load More Replies...It is funny how people want to cut down the Amazon Rainforest for more people to live when it gives is 80% of the worlds oxegen
If your light is still out after really thinking about this one, your probably dead.
I see the government tearing down everything and starting the new world, a world that is clueless, that's all I see
"those vultures robbing everyone, leave nothing but chains // pick a point on the globe, 'cause the picture's the same"
A man with mental illness (the jumbled mess in his brain) feels he has no choice but to live a life of crime (knitted ski mask) to get what he wants.
Load More Replies...to escape from the pain // and an existence mundane // i got a 9 a sign a set and now i got a name
I hate it.... I'm guilty of it and I hate it but when I pull 60 hours a week to pay bills and then do all the errands cooking and cleaning I personally can't entertain my son....
I mean... Sometimes you just do all you can and still can't do everything, but you can't hold it against yourself. I grew up in a single parent household and I watched my dad struggle to do everything for us for years, and yeah we grew up with the TV babysitter, but he told us each and every day he loved us and he did his best to acknowledge the important moments even if he couldn't be there for all of them. And it was enough. He taught us to work hard for the things and people important to you, and that was long as your doing your best then you're doing it right. So don't stress too much on it. You're doing the best you can for your son.
Load More Replies...And the twitter bird is bringing a new iphone. *Accepting bets for which one is more awaited these days*
Ouch, this one hurts...entertainment and social media has taken over the joy of being blessed with a new baby, a baby that learns from us how to live and grow up and what to value in life, what choices to make, how to work hard and how to be tough...not things they can learn with a Google search!
Nice metaphor for burnout which is currently on the rise in whole the modern western world due to b******t jobs, impossible workloads and rigid mentality from a lot of employers! The system NEEDS to change!
Everyone else is a peon. Just the upper crust gets that extra “ig” to be a worthy pigeon.
And yet, at the end of the day and under all that silk and cotton...well, they're still just pigeons.
Load More Replies...I don’t understand how this is “deep” in any way. Can someone please explain?
while people around them sit eating off the ground, the 1% sits at a table with cloths on, "cloths on animals are very important in symbolism"- 10th grade english teacher
Load More Replies...The 1% live luxuriously while everyone else has to depend on some human's sympathy. That's deep.
Let me share a new perspective... I took this to mean 'dressing up and sitting at a table' reflects how we view ourselves, which can be positive i.e. self respect etc, or can be negative i.e. egotism etc, but at the end of the day we're all relying on that man on the bench for food. In other words we're all the same.
I'm not so good at these. At the very least, I'm not getting the same vibe from this as others have. All I could think was that they're all in the same boat but these two are making the most of what they have.
I could also see this one symbolizing as how low some people will go to get money.
Each one of these works are very thought provoking. I love them all. I love your style. I am very proud of you!!!
The man has to bow low in front of the machine to get his money. I think this is about how the system is designed to alienate people who are just trying to live.
Load More Replies...Whole families and communities, civilians are dying because of war.
Open mind/book = endless possibilities but a closed mind/book = fall off the edge eventually🤷🏾♀️
And not a single person that's interested in such ever doubted it.
Load More Replies...The invaders are here to stay, permanently and with their families too.
This world looks boring at best, dangerous at worst. Sailing in the endless fog of a homogeneous aquarell fog... Also, as sad as it is, a huge amount of books written atm are books written by right wing numbnuts, conspiracy yokels and straight up fascists. Or just by grifters that want someones money. I love books, but the whole "Books are the best and writing makes new worlds" thing is superficial, pretentious and/or naïve.
Load More Replies...Like an mostly homogenous aquarell without details? Pass.
Load More Replies...shoves knowlege in your face, is then suprised that you are misbehaving, f**k you ms. Barnes, go to f*****g hell
I had a Ms Barnes as well, and you're absolutely right. Go f**k yourself, Ms Barnes!
Load More Replies...The modern education system doesn't try to teach anything. It just makes you memorize things to pass a standardized test. It doesn't encourage actual interest in learning, because teachers have to follow a set teaching plan instead of finding ways to make things engaging. And then they keep lowering the passing grade and wonder why there are adults with the reading comprehension of a 3rd grader.
Sorry... i dont understand hardly any of these. What is the connection between petroleum and wood, besides that they both burn for fuel?
you fool! the string is supposed to be tense so it will work properly! Did you ever learn at school?
Yes, but they just got knocked out repeatedly with a book on a stick.
Load More Replies...They're listening - might be symbolic for spying - for sounds from space/satelites with their can-phones
Load More Replies...We should stop searching for intelligent life out there... There's not even any down here
Again I'll share a new perspective... We allow our own thoughts and then words to be formed by the loudest voices all around us until it's an endless mindless cycle
"...pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space/ 'Cause there's bugger all down here on earth"
The loose string means we can't hear from them because our technology is not good enough.
I think it's that the aliens would be so far more advanced that it's the difference between tin cans on a string and our greatest telescopes.
Why would aliens be more advanced? They could just discover steam power whilst we talk here. Also, even we ourselves are far more advanced than to not know that the bloody string has to be tense. Also, I suspect that far advanced aliens, should they want to have contact with us, would be able to figure something out.
Load More Replies...The things that the newscasters say is meaningless or worthless
Load More Replies...I think you guys missed an important detail. This is a cement mixer. The news is just the same old messages being mixed up.
That’s a mixer , facts go in give it a spin. Spin it however you like.(Or how you’re told to)
That’s a mixer , facts go in give it a spin . Spin things the way you want. (Or the way your told to )
All the money for weapons, no money for the miltary men to buy food?
I think it means war is the only way some people know how to make a living because most cultures constantly encourage people to enlist.
I see what you did there and I approve :D (99 Red Balloons)
Load More Replies...The song 99 red balloons is a story of two kids who release red balloons and the government gets confused and scared and nukes them.
After a long day working with technology, we use technology to "unwind."
I heard that it is. Look for a bunch of cats knocking things off the edge.
Load More Replies...I know this isn't related, but why isn't the baby wearing a diaper?
Dannngggg. He really did "nuke" the bathroom. He left a "bomb" in the toilet. I'm sorry I had too...
😆 my first thought was that's one way to clean up after oneself lol
Load More Replies...I mean yeah, kinda. I don't think that's what this is though lol
Load More Replies...That's what I got. We are an experiment by someone greater than us. 🤷🏻♀️
Load More Replies...We are not experiments, we are made in the image of GOD, we aren't EXPERIMENTS!
Who says that he hasn’t tried many times to make pure beings? And that we are only the latest iteration?
Load More Replies...Wow. These are so beautiful! I love the style. They’re also really haunting and sad, sort of.
Why do people feel the need to explain every drawing? Art doesn't need to be explained. If you need to comment, say how it impacts you and move on.
Wish I could understand more of these without looking for an explanation in the comments. *sigh* Guess I'm not very deep.
The paintings are abstract and the interpretation is not going to be the same for everyone.
Load More Replies...I really didn't enjoy these. The artwork is good, no question, but most of the themes where pretty much edgy tragic memes. Pretentious. I'm sorry, but, yeah. Like someone that has been on the internet too much and now finds a "deep" though to all what's going on, without having real insight, or understanding. It's basically buzzword (buzzpictures).
Wow. These are so beautiful! I love the style. They’re also really haunting and sad, sort of.
Why do people feel the need to explain every drawing? Art doesn't need to be explained. If you need to comment, say how it impacts you and move on.
Wish I could understand more of these without looking for an explanation in the comments. *sigh* Guess I'm not very deep.
The paintings are abstract and the interpretation is not going to be the same for everyone.
Load More Replies...I really didn't enjoy these. The artwork is good, no question, but most of the themes where pretty much edgy tragic memes. Pretentious. I'm sorry, but, yeah. Like someone that has been on the internet too much and now finds a "deep" though to all what's going on, without having real insight, or understanding. It's basically buzzword (buzzpictures).
