A night at the art exhibition
Sometimes I do not know why I made a drawing. I guess I started out with the gentleman in white tie because I just read Marcel Proust - (I own such a suit myself actually). Then I was doodling a bit to find out what he was looking at and made a slightly obscene vitalist statue of a pregnant woman and after that I designed the fin de siècle column. Not really satisfied I worked around with some grey tones in the background and made what looked like a landscape. The dead trees are from the terribly scorched earth of Ypres, 1917 as a double exposure on top.
If anyone care to do an interpretation they are very welcome!
This maybe be a little basic, but I’d say the man represents civilization gone too far in his search for order and has done his best to eliminate the unknown from life, and while at it has managed to block the chaotic and creative that is here represented in the female form reduced to a statue, a relic from the past that he cannot access. The result of this can be seen in the background as the suppressed chaos surfaces in destruction under the tyrannical expression of the civilizations are competing for resources.
When I had made I was thinking along the same lines. Hadn't planned it to mean anything though.
It's obvious! When everything falls apart around us, it is only the admiration of art that remains. Now, consider that there was a cthulhu statuette, haunting the viewers' dreams, driving them crazy and forcing them to create more nightmarish art - even those that have no relation to art, they would be forced to create with whatever means their crooked minds suggested...
I did consider an elder God, but then this pregnant woman showed up. To the man in the formal attire it might be just as scaring as an elder God :)
Definitely an odd combination, but very nicely drawn all the same.