A protest against todays porn industry

We had an assignment in school to re-do a well known work of art and reflect upon its original message and then change it in our new production. I chose to do a mash-up between Salvador Dalís:

 "The burning Giraffe"

and

"The Elephants"

"The burning Giraffe" was made during the time of the spanish civil war and you could easily distinguish the concern from Dalís behalf about that in the feeling of the choice of colour in the painting . The drawers in the faceless womans chest/leg are symbols of inner, hidden, subconscious thoughts - the very heart of Surrealism's intent to explore the world of dreams. As the drawers are empty though, I see it as the woman has been deprived of her most precious belongings and natural rights.

"The Elephants" I think of as a work that is supposed to symbolize a wounded psyche. Or, I'm not sure how to explain this, but it's like you are putting to much weight upon your own shoulders that you are no longer capable of carrying it.
The massive bodies of the elephants and those legs thin as needles...
An intresting aspect of the painting are the floating obelisks on top of the elephants backs. Seeing it through another perspectiv the painting could symbolize that if you are experiencing a high pressure from the ones around you and the culture you come from, you could reach far in a career or in the world. Llong legs takes long leaps. As the animals are elephants, the ones who never forgett, this could refer to an ability to remember a lot of stuff - or cleaverness, wisdom - which also often is seen as a need to become successful. That the legs are so thin, alas, should mean that this is a very insecure way of managing your life.
It's like "Oh, watch it! If you place your foot wrong just a single time you will end up breaking it... and a couple of more parts of your body".
 .. Or psyche, if you prefer.    


And in my painting I still want the woman to symbolize someone who has been deprived from the rights to her/his own body. "The burning giraffe" is about a war and my painting is too, just not in the same way.
The elephant is walking across the world as a gesture of that the porn industry comprises the entire world. As you can see the animal isn't as distinct as the one in Dalís because it forms the shape of a human sitting in front of it's computer screen as well. I am not going to clarify why the person is there, think it's kinda obvious from my intentions with the work. If the animal hadn't been an elephant, though, I would probably not have chosen this angle of incidence for the message of the painting.

Be aware of the fact that will be generalizing in the following text:.
As I mentioned before elephants are know as the ones that never forgett...
I would, contrariwise, like for all of us to forgett this whole thing about the porn industry that humiliates women (and very seldom men) and  makes young men and women of today grow up and think that good sex should look like that (because it's obviously not necessarily true).

Young people of today should change their view upon sex. When a someone gets sexually violated in school, the teachers shouldn't ask the offer if she/he wants to go and see the counselor or a psyciatrist, what the hell has that person done that is wrong?! If there is somone who should talk it's the boy or girl who has behaved unappropriate, he/she is the one that got promblems in its head, not the offer. Why is it that it's mostly boys that do this to girls and not the other way around? Physical strange? A way to show authority? Or is it beacause girls already have got it out from their systems? I mean, in kindergarten it's more common that girls run around and chases boys to get a kiss and they don't get told that that is wrong to do. Or am I wrong here, am I the only one who has experienced occasions like that? Maybe boys then learn that this kind of behaviour is okey - whilst it is not - and get some kind of need to revenge that pops up later in life...
But then why do most girls learn that it isn't right to do such things and more boys do not?
Girls have been taught to talk for ages now, it's time for us to start educating the boys to do the same.
And that doesn't mean to teach them have to talk about and organize a gangbang. NO.
I mean that they need to talk about and understand what real love is and how it should feel. We ALL need to learn how to respect, appreciate and treat each other in an appropriate way.

Isn't it tragical that in todays society we seem to be able to be so independent that we no longer have to care for (take care of) one another?
   

 

                            

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