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24 “Yes, But” Illustrations By Anton Gudim That You Might Relate To (New Pics)
Interview With Artist
Anton Gudim is an artist who’s great at noticing how contradictory our everyday life can be. Besides his quirky short-paneled comics, the artist also creates sarcastic and relatable illustrations he calls "Yes, But" that depict two sides of the same circumstance.
The idea of creating "Yes, But" comics came to Anton in 2016. This format was inspired by reflections on how people get along with a lot of contradictions in their lives. The artist found the actions of some people very contradictory: hence this "but" appeared.
If you want to see our previous posts featuring more "Yes, But" comics, click here, here and here!
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One of my cats loves the scratching post, but also adores the already ruined leather armchairs (previous kitty went to town on the leather furniture), and she loves the kitchen bench. The other cat sometimes forgets what the scratching post is for, but loves one of the carpets that she is allowed to scratch. Oh well. People who want perfect furniture should not have pets that can ruin it. Oh, and anyone who declaws a cat is a garbage human being and should have the same done to them.
Anton's ideas come from observing everyday life. As the artist mentioned in previous interviews, over the years he has trained himself to notice something and to be in a constant search for ideas. Since he has formed an absurd surrealistic style, Anton looks at the world through the prism of it. "This is the way to fight the boredom: to see something new in the regular surroundings."
True. Insisting that pre-pubescent girls cover their nipples when they are at that point identical to little boys or else they will be considered obscene or sexualized. Refusing to allow women to breastfeed in public when THIS is exactly the purpose of enlarged breasts in women but allowing sexy images of women's breasts in advertising.
I remember as a kid being so confused and mad when my mom told me I was getting too old to run around topless. I was like 4 or 5.
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It's ironic. Breasts are only sexualized because we sexualize them! If we didn't make a big stink about it, it wouldn't be a big deal.
Here in Canada, a woman exposing her nipples can be charged with an Obsenity charge... However, if a cop is ever stupid enough to do it, he has to write-up all the shirtless men in the area to prevent loosing a Sexual Discrimination lawsuit. So, even though it is illegal, it is technically legal for a woman to walk around topless in the middle of the City... 'cause no cop wants to write-up the 200 kilo fat man.
I think there's only ambiguity in Quebec with regard to women going topless in Canada, but in general it's considered legal. The public decency law is this: 174 (1) Every one who, without lawful excuse, (a) is nude in a public place, or (b) is nude and exposed to public view while on private property, whether or not the property is his own, is guilty of an offence punishable on summary conviction. Marginal note:Nude (2) For the purposes of this section, a person is nude who is so clad as to offend against public decency or order. Since the law is considered nondiscriminatory in Canada, and men go topless all the time in public, women have freedom to go topless as well.
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Women are sexualized because people make them that way. If people would stop being perverted gross humans and stop saying "boobies bad unless sex!!", Maybe a lot of unnecessary things would freaking p**s off. :/ Example? Disney World sends woman home for wearing a crop top. Let man wearing "Sex, guns and Jesus" t shirt stay. Like really??
Me and my wife live in Minnesota where it is legal for women to be topless of any age in any location that it is legal for a man to be topless as long as they are not acting in a deliberately provocative or lewd manner the example in the law given was shaking them at somebody. My wife was happy to use the ruling in her advantage for the first time finally and rode around town in the car with me with no shirt happy that she just had the right to do so.
I never understood some people's controversy over seeing a pair of breasts. I'm also very Danish.
It's more of a protection thing i think. An unfortunately large number of guys get aggressively horny when women are exposed. It'd be nice if society taught men to control themselves, but sadly enough, the "short skirt/blame the victim" thing is real.
It really is not that guys get aggressively horny. It is that for so long it was stated that they do to use it as an excuse to control women. Men merely reacted to being told that was the case and began claiming it was how they reacted.
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Look... Men..... If you don't want us openly commenting on the size of your junk please refrain from commenting on our breasts breast or universal we all have them don't ostracize us because I was a larger than yours
To me, this is a picture of a father teaching his child not to objectify women in their natural state while exercising his right to be comfortable as well. Neither one of the styles of dress are wrong but it would be incorrect to let his child ogle a woman instead of letting her live her life without the eyeball harassment
We don't stare at their boobs and they don't stare at our guts. That's the deal LOL
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No and ok if everyone is treated the same (alternatively: better the first than the second)
But women have parts there that boy could get all wierd but that's his dad and seeing that Isint traumatic it's just embarrassing and tacky
I agree, people out of shape should have the decency to avoid exposing their bodies, I don't want to throw up.
Maybe I'm wrong but it looks quite like a strawman to me. I've witnessed neither of the above, never
Never seen a fat guy with his shirt undone dragging a kid around?
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The porn industry and purity culture (toxic patriarchy) are exactly why people have become so against natural life. They're too busy over sexualizing literally everything, including literal children, instead of letting people be. It's sexism and not teaching people to control their own bodies instead of trying to police other people. We need to stop with this "well, I don't think they're being modest enough" bs and realize that other people are different than us and are allowed to have different ideas of modesty. "Modesty" used to mean covering ankles and wrists and necks as well (but only for women, because women aren't allowed to show any skin or they're "asking for it") we certainly don't want to go back centuries.
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Irony, humor, sarcasm, randomness, absurdity and easily recognizable style are what make these illustrations so well received. Anton Gudim has already reached over 1.7M followers on two of his Instagram accounts and the number keeps growing!
If you'd like to see some of the creator's older work, check out our posts here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Short-haired peeps, don´t forget to use sunscreen on the back of your neck and ears when heading into the hellscape that is outside.
I have such good taste in music that I know everyone else wants to hear it!
It's the 4th article featuring "Yes, But" comics on Bored Panda and it seems that it won't be the last. The artist shared that he has a lot of ideas for this format so he's planning to continue creating these contradictory illustrations.
"I don’t come up with something special: the ideas come by themselves, which means that the topic has not exhausted itself and the format itself has a wide interpretation, which almost does not restrain my creative impulses."
We asked Anton whether he has some upcoming projects. The artist replied that he has a lot on his plate at the moment. Besides the "Yes, but" illustrations he is also creating drawings outside this format for himself, publishing books, discussing future exhibitions, etc. All this doesn't allow him to think about other projects. However, the artist shared that everything can change at any moment. "Just like I did not plan to do Yes, BUT as a separate project, but it happened."
The amount of useless bloatware that my phone has is ridiculous. Never getting another Xiaomi ever again!
I always do the pumpy thing; opening and closing an umbrella rapidly to shake off excess water. Doesn´t make it dry, but it´s not as drippy.
Lol yeah, why do the waiting tickets always look like they were printed on the oldest electronic printer ever?
Hmm...boating and rowing are two different things and there's nothing relaxing about rowing but it's a brilliant workout - so I don't think I agree with this one, he's working out in one and relaxing in the other.
This seems like extreme cherrypicking to me. The artist choses to invent situations that only exist in their mind and then to be offended by them.
Maybe it's a location or cultural thing? I realize there's some poetic license as it's a bit of ironic comedy/relatable angst. Regardless, I encounter most of these more often than I think about.
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Does BoredPanda need a primer for satire, irony and absurdism? Because the top comments on half of these posts are by people don’t get that these are meant to be humorous, tongue-in-cheek, and to maaaybe make you think a little bit.
I think most of the world needs a primer for that, but maybe that's just me speaking as a customer service rep...
Load More Replies... Idk but, for some of the pics I get what the author want to say but... That's not reality, like, in French we have a word "cliché" which basically means something that people expect to happen but doesn't really happen 'cause that's not how things works...
Huh, that's actually an interesting take on it. I sure hope you don't delete this comment and then people decide to downvote you because it's a deleted comment!
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This seems like extreme cherrypicking to me. The artist choses to invent situations that only exist in their mind and then to be offended by them.
Maybe it's a location or cultural thing? I realize there's some poetic license as it's a bit of ironic comedy/relatable angst. Regardless, I encounter most of these more often than I think about.
Load More Replies... Does BoredPanda need a primer for satire, irony and absurdism? Because the top comments on half of these posts are by people don’t get that these are meant to be humorous, tongue-in-cheek, and to maaaybe make you think a little bit.
I think most of the world needs a primer for that, but maybe that's just me speaking as a customer service rep...
Load More Replies... Idk but, for some of the pics I get what the author want to say but... That's not reality, like, in French we have a word "cliché" which basically means something that people expect to happen but doesn't really happen 'cause that's not how things works...
Huh, that's actually an interesting take on it. I sure hope you don't delete this comment and then people decide to downvote you because it's a deleted comment!
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