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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.
The words on there are the days of the week in case you were wondering.
For me I see this as the days that have gone by have added to the middle aged spread - the younger slimmer me is somewhere inside.
This has many interpretations yet the basic idea in each is reasonably accurate. This could as easily be a man.
To me this depicts the layers of responsibility that a woman takes on throughout her life and this woman has decided it's time to peel off those layers and become one with nature again.
I like how it looks like a measuring tape, like the woman's worth is completely wrapped up in how fat or thin she is.
With each passing day, you are getting older and no matter how hard you try, you can't escape. the same time will never come back..!!
Perfect! If people possibly wake up and look at themselves and their food intake, better the disturbed consumption of fast food...Well done your image is amazing.
Maybe it's about shedding the uneccessary layers that we all accumulate in order 'to blend in'. Maybe 0 is essence that we are uncovering as time goes by
Days of the week???? For me, this depicts how woman constantly rolling themselves up into and wrap themselves up in size. Also how society rolls woman up into size comparable to their worth and beauty, hence, the pretty feet, hair and stance layered by different sizes. For me, that's what this depicts.
Preparing for beach this summer. Counting days left (and lost) to loose wheight...
I actually think that it's about how much we concern ourselves with appearance, but over time that tape measure will slowly wrap around us and it won't matter how skinny we are when we are old. It's a material thing to look a certain way for society when that won't matter in 20+ years
The picture is represented by a woman. Perhaps, women through days and years, builds herself, an invisible shield that protects her soul and body....
Days of the week ¿??? For me this depicts societies and woman and the beauty of being a certain size. Also, how woman roll themselves up and are measured by size comparable to their size.
I love Dali inspired works and this one is so telling , a beautiful social commentary in presentation and finish.
I find it fascinating that she's standing in a barren square that is surrounded by infinite grassland. Is she on a diet, not allowing herself to partake of the bounty around her? Or (perhaps) is this the illusion that she's somehow unnatural or unworthy? Is it that life can be so hard when one is heavy and/or weight conscious?
another way to look at it is it's actually being unwrapped as well. We don't know the direction of the wrapping. Could also be a countdown of a woman who is trying to lose weight, counting down the days to her goal. That's how I relate to it. Facinating.
So is she getting fat everyday? :S So, is she getting fat everyday? :S
No. The proportions remain the same. Only the size increases like adding layers evenly. Shell upon shell separating the real person further and further from the real world through the passage through their life maybe.
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Comment se débarrasser des kilos en trop ??? Il suffit de retirer les pelures !!!
I think it's more to represent the daily struggle most women go through over the ideal beauty standards.
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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!
