Michal Dziekan
Michal Dziekan is a Polish illustrator, art director, and animator working in Warsaw. The majority of his work is hand drawn but colored digitally. His works focuses on caricatures of humans and human lifestyle. A big theme in many of his pieces is our interaction between our culture and our food. As you can see above, a Ronald McDonald-esque clown is giving obese children a hamburger forged from the fires of Hell's kitchen.
His illustrations are funny, yet disturbing, since they reflect the grotesque side of humanity. Overconsumption, obesity, consumerism, stress, pollution, and crime are common subjects in his work. It's his take on modern society and all of it's contradictions and ugliness. I like how his art raises political questions and forces the viewers to see how corrupt our institutions have become, which effects how we live our lives every day.
When I first looked at the art work, I thought how look it was disturbing. Then I thought about how the subject of over consumption was more disturbing.
ReplyDeleteThis is sick, in a disturbing kind of way. It's totally true though. It's nice that someone is actually trying to address serious issues like this through their artwork.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the reasoning behind adding another arch to the logo was. Fear of a lawsuit? Added emphasis?
ReplyDeleteThe first thing I thought about when I saw this was Hansel and Gretel.
ReplyDeleteNice, at first I was kind of creeped out, undesirable imagery and all. I read the description and saw the little details and felt it was quite clever, I think the initial emphasis on the obese children is to allude to a connection to Hansel and Gretel. I'm almost certain this is a allusion to the folklore narrative because of the menacing cooks and the open oven.
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