Sentences with phrase «politics as a cartoon»
People who in their fields of expertise insist on rigor, precision, and high seriousness approach politics as a cartoon world of heroes and villains, sinister special interests and noble suffering humanity.
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I think of them as political cartoons that aren't about politics: they express a longing or a frustration or challenge to think in a new way.»
Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.
Painting for an open source age, Abney draws on multiple references which she samples and remixes in order to create a new language inflected by elements of popular culture, from satirical cartoons to graffiti and hip hop, as well as politics, entertainment and the history of art.
About Blog A subreddit for political humor (particularly US politics), such as political cartoons and satire.