This project is...somewhat unique...? I had some trouble developing my ideas with this one. I researched pen-and-ink political cartoons of Hogarth and surrealism; I wanted this piece to have more content than my previous ones. The piece is supposed to illustrate the tension between traditionalism and modernism. I cut up a book called The Philosophy of Morality and collaged it throughout the piece, underlining particularly stuffy or limited statements to show the absence of freedom in traditional things. The top of the work is simply detailed and realistic, showing an interior space with two pillars (the "pillars of knowledge"?), while the bottom begins to "break out" with swirls and bright, surrealistic faces and feet. This is supposed to show how modernism breaks free of all restrictions. I feel like the content of this piece is definitely stronger than my others, yet the composition is somewhat weak. I'm ambivalent.
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