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Controversial Illustrations By Polish Artist Reveal The Darker Side Of Modern Society
Polish illustrator, artist, and co-owner of Morski Studio Graficzne Igor Morski creates surreal images imbued with hidden meaning. He graduated with honors from the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Faculty at the State Higher School of Fine Art in Poznań, and worked for public broadcasting in the 80s and 90s, before finally pursuing a career in press illustration. Morski opened his own studio in 1995.
"Sometimes I used to use popular symbols, such as Pinocchio’s long nose," Morski told Bored Panda. "However, most frequently I have tried to think up my own symbols. For example, [my piece] “creative archaeology” is about the commercialisation of archaeology. There, I depict a halved human head filled with the sand with a stylised figure of Indiana Jones, the archaeologist, at the top. The symbolism becomes clear. On the one hand, you have the head filled with the sand, on the other, the figure digging in it."
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I was a single parent myself for a while. This illustrates the situation perfectly! I had to row against my ex while having the added weight of the children.
If you follow the physics, they are actually rowing with each other, not against.
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Actually, they're rowing in opposite directions...
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The physics is ambiguous which maybe is part of the point. If the father is under water then he is helping. If he is also above water, then they are struggling against each other. Perhaps they are both trying to move and getting nowhere. Like a lot of good art there is a lot of room in the interpretation here.
So no need to argue with each other in the comments here :-)
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Single mother having to be both mother and father. Be as strong as a mom and dad, be two people to the children, even though it's tough and she's just one woman.
I think it's about how a woman plays her role as a mother and also as a father for her child.
Couples nowadays separate so easily so that they don't even think much about the kid.. no one is looking after the kid here.. :(
I think it's a Widow not a divorce. There's sadness in the portrait, not anger (typically associated with divorces). He still lives within her but she can't feel it and looks back at where she came from. She's alone in her sadness because we can feel connected with technology but when you strip that away and sit in Nature you realize you're alone. Even tho right behind her is the child whom she could connect with. But her Aline's and sadness is preventing that.
Am I the only one who noticed that neither of them cares about the kid?
1.What a man can do a woman can do attitude. 2.Single mother is both a mother and a father to her children.
I don't see her as a single parent. I see the man living a separate life. I see this as a commentary on men working too many hours to support families they don't get to enjoy.
It feels like the father died and the mother and child is alone but the husband is there with them in spirit watching over them and helping as best he can.
I am a single parent of three... this picture makes me jealous. I see as They are working together. one pulls the other extends.
What I see in this picture... Is on the surface the woman looks like she's pulling all the weight when really the man is doing the work behind the scenes and getting no recongnition. Even though they are facing opposite directions, they are actually rowing in sync with eachother. I'd like to caveat with this has no reflection on how I actual feel about the single parenting situation at all, just what I see when I look at the picture.
What I see is woman who is both Mother and daughter. This is something her father used to do with her. She reconnects with her father who may no longer be living as she continues this tradition with her daughter.
The man looks a bit older than the woman, the woman is smiling as she looks off into the distance, so I think that the reflection is a fond memory and connection to the past. The little girl who seems to be pondering life, the future , and pleasantly enjoying the present moment will likely do the same someday.
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I think I see this a little didferenlty than what I read. I sew this, morjority of the time, the mother does most of the work. (THIS IS NOT KNOCKING THE FATHERS) It's just life and how it goes. But notice the little girl is the one looking at the reflection. And me with a daughter myself. And myself doing most of the work because her dad, my wonderful huaband, works over 80 hours a week, the child seea the parents equal. No matter how much time/work either parent put in. My daughter LOVES her father. Daddys and daughters have a very special bond.
It got me thinking....was this a depiction of division of labor; or lack there of? The gender role strain I.e a woman goes to work, she brings her kids with her, in fact she biting stem everywhere. Conversely when a man goes to work, he works.
It looks to me the child stares into the water's and sees a father in her mother.
The beauty of this image demonstrates the struggle of both the mother and father. What I find interesting is the child's expression.
The beauty of this image demonstrates the struggle of both mother and father. What I think is particularly interesting is the child's expression.
I feel Fed up by cliché. Women Can push opposite as well, they are not the lonely Heroes all the time, my Story proofs It
rowing together on opposite sides of the same issue and they are getting nowhere
i see what happening now at these days. Almost every couple with kids are separate, both sailng the same way to help them grow up, but he mother have the custody. I dont see guilty any of them, is just a consecuense of the society we live.
Perhaps, the romancing days are over, but they still tight to their most valuable treasure, the family.
We often forget the role of the father which though it appears in the background is just as important to move a family forward
the child doesn't seem interested in either one of them. she is dreaming and lost in her own world. The mother and father are lost in their intensity and battle with each other and have lost sight of the child.
Pulling together for our future generation all the while separate in existence
Man always alone fighting to move everything in the right direction but no one notices him - only children are near their mother.
The words on there are the days of the week in case you were wondering.
Or a boy growing into society's definition of what a man is supposed to be. What our definition of masculinity has evolved into.
We are made of Earth. When we die we will return to the earth. But, in the meantime, life is a beautiful dance.
We put so many thoughts and feelings into little compartments, putting off dealing with them.....
I see a child controlling his elder self. The moon is a terrific allegory for the lens of fantasy through which we viewed adulthood.
Inside: i am still a young girl, wishing to fly away. To escape. Why were birds born with wings, and not I?
Business and capitalism are just means in which society can unload aggressiveness and the desire of dominance. Deep inside we are still all animals.
Big fish in a little pond; america isn't as great as it thinks it is without the cooperation/water of the rest of the world.
His imagination lifts him up out of his impoverished surroundings. But he is also his own worst enemy: if he swings his sword the wrong way, he'll cut the strings and come crashing painfully back to reality.
Despite how important a thing is, there is always a limit of having it, too much of anything is a bad idea.
Sometimes you think you protecting yourself when the very thing you thought was protecting you ends up causing the most damage...
We as people are larger than those giving the orders. We literally support those in power, and yet we follow their direction
Demons inside us are killing us or that dark side inside each of us
The distorted reality and transformation of matter to symbolize reality in dreams
We can evolve and change, but our future is literally either going to be flooded or filled with pollution
Absolutely marvellous illustration. I am hoping the author is going to come up with more artwork of these series - everything I saw, makes me craving for more. Polak wykazał się myślą i talentem, narysował ciekawe ilustracje, a ludzie zza granicy jako zaangażowani odbiorcy ciekawie je interpretują i podpisują. To co się dzieje na tej stronie jest dobrym wzorem dla wszystkich Polaków za granicą - bądź jak Morski. Reprezentuj, inspiruj i wyznaczaj standardy dla każdego.
It needs to be a bit more understandable but the phone parasite was really realistic and true!
The people analyzing these images are brilliant!! I couldn't come up with explanations for most, but the comments are really spectacular in the process of interpretation.!
These remind me so much of a modern day salivdor Dali!! Marvellous in every way!!
They are marvelous, amazing, stunning, but some I couldn't understand the meaning behind and it drives me crazy. Hope they had the explanation of the author, without that it's impossible to stop yourself from making your own conclusions and it means endless thinking. New illusions each time ı review. :(
I love great art. I enjoy surrealism in particular. Therefore to me, this man is the best of the best! Amazing skill combined with unbelievable creativity. LOVE IT!!!! www.leonkushnerart.blogspot.ca
I'm not an artist, an art critic, nor even a patron of the arts particularly so take my assessment with a grain of salt. But in my very novice opinion I find these to be the finest examples of surrealism I've seen since someone showed me my first Dali. Bravo! Sharing now.
Reminds me of ROBERT RALPH CARMICHAEL. He designed Canada's 1 dollar Loonie coin, amongst other Commemorative pieces. He does excellent Surrealism also.
Some of the pictures are so totally disturbing. Overall an exceptional critique on humanity or our lack of it. Thought provoking, thank you...
I very much enjoyed the conceptualism in the works. I am a conceptual artist myself.
Amazing work! He/she really did great detail in making it look like a photograph. Keep up the amazing work! ^.^
I wonder how long it takes to make these, either way their excellent!
Absolutely marvellous illustration. I am hoping the author is going to come up with more artwork of these series - everything I saw, makes me craving for more. Polak wykazał się myślą i talentem, narysował ciekawe ilustracje, a ludzie zza granicy jako zaangażowani odbiorcy ciekawie je interpretują i podpisują. To co się dzieje na tej stronie jest dobrym wzorem dla wszystkich Polaków za granicą - bądź jak Morski. Reprezentuj, inspiruj i wyznaczaj standardy dla każdego.
It needs to be a bit more understandable but the phone parasite was really realistic and true!
The people analyzing these images are brilliant!! I couldn't come up with explanations for most, but the comments are really spectacular in the process of interpretation.!
These remind me so much of a modern day salivdor Dali!! Marvellous in every way!!
They are marvelous, amazing, stunning, but some I couldn't understand the meaning behind and it drives me crazy. Hope they had the explanation of the author, without that it's impossible to stop yourself from making your own conclusions and it means endless thinking. New illusions each time ı review. :(
I love great art. I enjoy surrealism in particular. Therefore to me, this man is the best of the best! Amazing skill combined with unbelievable creativity. LOVE IT!!!! www.leonkushnerart.blogspot.ca
I'm not an artist, an art critic, nor even a patron of the arts particularly so take my assessment with a grain of salt. But in my very novice opinion I find these to be the finest examples of surrealism I've seen since someone showed me my first Dali. Bravo! Sharing now.
Reminds me of ROBERT RALPH CARMICHAEL. He designed Canada's 1 dollar Loonie coin, amongst other Commemorative pieces. He does excellent Surrealism also.
Some of the pictures are so totally disturbing. Overall an exceptional critique on humanity or our lack of it. Thought provoking, thank you...
I very much enjoyed the conceptualism in the works. I am a conceptual artist myself.
Amazing work! He/she really did great detail in making it look like a photograph. Keep up the amazing work! ^.^
I wonder how long it takes to make these, either way their excellent!
