The disconnect between how her mouth is open on one side and closed on the other is giving me a headache. Seriously, the point of this kind of artwork is that the body parts MATCH UP – something that the artist clearly didn’t care about.
Also, the dragon coming out of the volcano’s plume is a truly unconvincing depiction of its kind.
So she’s got a big pimple above her right eye and a discharge from her left ear.
Lovely, eh?
Not to mention she seems to have had some terrible wound across the center of her face that was badly repaired, to cause her partly-open, partly-closed lips, and… whatever happened to her nose. I see @Anna T agrees.
@JP: She might escape recognition — at that scale, she’s more liable to show up on Apple Maps. And can you imagine going for a hike near the volcano and falling into a giant eyeball? Ewww. Her eyes don’t line up either.
Over the centuries many graduates of the Unknown Artist’s Institute have tried to recreate the profound ambiguity of DaVinci’s Mona Lisa. None has succeeded, and some, frankly, just shouldn’t have bothered trying.
Considering how long it takes to put on makeup, I shudder to think how long it takes to put on a landscape when she goes to work in the mornings.
Darn birds, always flying off with shiny things.
@Anna T.: maybe it’s not a dragon, just a smoke monster on its way to some disappointingly metaphorical island. And maybe the artist is trying to draw a contrast between the Angry Orange (we all know about angry orange nowadays) and Cool Blue sides of her persona? It’s art, it’s a metaphor, it’s an exploration of the psyche!
(Or not.)
“The only hope for the future of her race?”
So the landscape-face people are a threatened minority or something even though _she_ is vital to the Emperor? The tropes just write themselves.
February 14th, 2018 at 10:51 am
Bird’s lucky it’s just the crown and not the throne.
February 14th, 2018 at 11:35 am
“She’s got smoke panther hair…” (with apologies to the Super Furry Animals)
February 14th, 2018 at 1:14 pm
It is quite symbolic that the Eagle has the the crown. Go Philly!
February 14th, 2018 at 3:51 pm
Just like it said in ‘De Rerum Natura’: the universe is made from Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Squirrels and Lipgloss.
February 14th, 2018 at 5:14 pm
The disconnect between how her mouth is open on one side and closed on the other is giving me a headache. Seriously, the point of this kind of artwork is that the body parts MATCH UP – something that the artist clearly didn’t care about.
Also, the dragon coming out of the volcano’s plume is a truly unconvincing depiction of its kind.
February 14th, 2018 at 10:05 pm
Nice try, lady, but Apple’s face recognition technology is still going to know who you are.
February 15th, 2018 at 12:15 am
Don’t you just hate it when people can’t get portrait and landscape sorted out on their camera phones?
February 15th, 2018 at 3:24 am
So she’s got a big pimple above her right eye and a discharge from her left ear.
Lovely, eh?
Not to mention she seems to have had some terrible wound across the center of her face that was badly repaired, to cause her partly-open, partly-closed lips, and… whatever happened to her nose. I see @Anna T agrees.
@JP: She might escape recognition — at that scale, she’s more liable to show up on Apple Maps. And can you imagine going for a hike near the volcano and falling into a giant eyeball? Ewww. Her eyes don’t line up either.
Mr. x-n chortled.
February 15th, 2018 at 5:52 am
Over the centuries many graduates of the Unknown Artist’s Institute have tried to recreate the profound ambiguity of DaVinci’s Mona Lisa. None has succeeded, and some, frankly, just shouldn’t have bothered trying.
September 25th, 2019 at 10:59 am
I like the art, but the blurb is meh.
Time for the Blurbinator ™:
“She was the [1] most feared [2] – and the only hope for the [3] of her [4]…”
1.
a) Emperor’s
b) “MeToo” movement’s
c) Petaluma Bowling Team’s
d) art school’s
e) Navy SEAL’s
f) knitting circle’s
2.
a) weapon
b) social media influencer
c) player
d) Post-Modern intersectionalist painter
e) elite soldier
f) member
3.
a) future
b) re-election
c) victory
d) Fall exhibition
e) liberation
f) completion
4.
a) race
b) congresswoman
c) home town
d) installation of Mona Lisa in vat of pig’s blood
e) country
f) Christmas quilt
September 25th, 2019 at 11:09 pm
@ARY: Regarding #3 — they were the pride of AMF Boulevard Lanes!
January 7th, 2021 at 7:28 pm
Considering how long it takes to put on makeup, I shudder to think how long it takes to put on a landscape when she goes to work in the mornings.
Darn birds, always flying off with shiny things.
@Anna T.: maybe it’s not a dragon, just a smoke monster on its way to some disappointingly metaphorical island. And maybe the artist is trying to draw a contrast between the Angry Orange (we all know about angry orange nowadays) and Cool Blue sides of her persona? It’s art, it’s a metaphor, it’s an exploration of the psyche!
(Or not.)
“The only hope for the future of her race?”
So the landscape-face people are a threatened minority or something even though _she_ is vital to the Emperor? The tropes just write themselves.
January 8th, 2021 at 7:37 am
Maybe it’s like that permanent eye makeup?
January 10th, 2022 at 2:03 pm
♪ I see littoral silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango? ♪