Analysis of Alex Pardee’s Artwork

What is a leper anyway? In the past, it was simply a complaint. When you caught this disease you were isolated. Taken out of society, never to throw again. Your life would never be the same again. As time passed this disease obviously died out. Nowadays not many plenty deem leprosy in its serious form. But we do pitch leprosy of a different sort. This leprosy is heretofore worse than the physical illness. It is something that gets worse over time and will f in all out to do so unless we as piece beings decide to change our actions.Today, those who argon different ar thought to be lepers. These commonwealth should be rejected, shunned. They be unusual, strange we rear endnot accept what they believe in. Why is this so? Why start we been brainwashed so thoroughly by the media that we dont protrude that being different is something we humans create in our minds. People are different only because we sound out them to be that way. They are lepers, only because we afford t hem so. What is so bad really roughly being a leper? be different? This escort addresses these questions.We can depend that in the icon in that location are two odd expression creatures who are bleeding onto a authorize with a chickens corpus. This chickens head is dripping in blood while there is a meek bar of liquid ecstasy at its feet. The only thing in coloring is the blood which signifies that it symbolises something Copernican. And so he bathed in the blood of the lepers. By this invent we meet that the creature in the middle is the object which is bathing in the blood. Again, why would any one(a) want to bathe in the blood of leper? hearty why not?In this case the two odd looking for creatures would be the lepers. If the lepers in this moving-picture show make up people who are different, so it could in any case hatch that these people are so different that they could be considered to be a subculture of some sort. It is understandable to believe that so me subcultures are actually desirable to some people. This obviously depends on the persons personal taste. They whitethorn want to be involved in the subcultures of nerds, jocks, emos, sentiment kids, goths, etc etc. The leper character may not even be focus on a particular sub culture.They can also represent the chamaeleons of society, changing themselves to appeal to people. Again, this depends on your perspective. The leper character only represents a chameleon of society if you choose to believe that it does so to persuade you to join the subculture that it is word-painting itself to be. Why would people choose to believe this? Only to feel accepted. They may be so rejected that all they want and need is a feeling of belong even if it is found a way which is not entirely truthful or right. Rather, it is an illusion.So do we humans wring what is there to suit our cases and make certain situations more pleasurable to us? Definitely. This leads us to the importance of the bloo d in the stunt man. The blood can be viewed as the initiation process. The blood, which is the only coloured thing in the word picture symbolises this initiation process. This is the only part of the image in colour, because this process is the most important part of belonging to a group of people or a subculture. Bathing in the blood would be catching the lepers disease, or differentwise, finally being a part of the lepers.The feeling of belonging settles in for the first time. Now that the person is a part of the lepers, can they really think of themselves as lepers? They are now able to understand and empathise with the subculture they have joined so would it actually seem so different to them now? No it wouldnt, promote underlining the fact that we only label people as being different, of being social lepers, only because we do not understand them. However if we were a part of what they believe in, i. e. a part of their subculture, then we would no longer think they are so d ifferent.Only an outsider to this subculture would consider them to be lepers. Again, we humans label that which is not. We have established what it means to be different and why it is important, but what about the bar of soap at the chicken mess creatures feet? What would this symbolise? This symbolises the other perspective of this two sided argument of acceptance. The soap represents the cure for leprosy. The means to be cleaned from this disease. In the modern world this soap bar would represent the views of people who believe that removing yourself from a subculture is the true path to acceptance.However, like the size of the soap bar, these people are very few because we all have an congenital need to belong to a community, society, club, culture or subculture. In short, we all need to feel like we belong somewhere, no matter how more than of an illusion this feeling of belonging is. We desire to be persuaded to believe in something only to feel accepted and wanted by a com munity. This image drawn by the talented Alex Pardee shows us all these innate human desires in a way which persuades us to believe that we do have them. Of course this is achieved by this talented artist by using a great many ocular techniques.First of all the area of the image with the highest salience is the blood because like we established, the blood which represents the initiation process is one of the most important aspects of the process of belonging. The importance of this transition stage is boost underlined by the fact that the rest of the image is black and white hand sketches making the blood also the area with the highest colour modality. When we look further into the image and analyse the finer details we notice that the background is non-con textual matterualised, in fact, it is completely white.This helps us to not stray from the main put across that the image is trying to select. It keeps us focused on the foreground while also giving extra information on wh at might be acquittance on in the image. This information is given to us in the text written at the top. The foreground in question is the chicken hand with the blood being poured onto it. It is not in fact the text. This is because the image is in the centre and the gushing blood attracts us to the image at hand. This image would also be the focal point again highlighting the important cognitive content being given by the image.The perspective that we see the image also gives us a whole new view on the scene. We see the main subject (the chicken hand) in the frontal view. eyesight as the subject is the most important part of the image, it is safe to take that the whole image is viewed in the frontal perspective. However, it is important to note that we see the lepers side on. This suggests to us that we are not part of the lepers, that we are spare from them, that in fact they are different from us. The gaze of the subject is demanding.It is looking straight at the audience as if it wants to get its message across. Its message that it wants to be involved and included. The lepers on the other hand do not even have eyes. This suggests that they have nothing they want to communicate to people and are unaffected by what people think of them. The image in general is in a low modality because it is already trying to communicate a complicated message. By keeping it in dim-witted sketches, the artist is making it easier for the audience to understand the message.The artist uses all of these visual techniques with one purpose in mind to get the message across. The message that being different is not a negative thing. It is simply a means of feeling like you belong. Being a leper does not mean everything is lost. There will be a deformity, but one ought to stand up in mind that they still have their God-given potentials in them. It is the duty of society, to give a helping hand, in order for these lepers to exhibit what they have in them to world. You see, its not them. Its you.