Cripple in smoke from factory chimney (1942)
This artwork depicts a crippled figure walking away from what looks like a chimney. The figure looks to be created by the smoke as if they were a ghost or not real. The figure only has one leg and is using crutches. The figures head is surrounded by circles like a halo. The figure is staring at you while walking away from the chimney and the barbed wire fence behind it.
This artwork is drawn with ink on paper. Boyd has used different thicknesses of lines and strokes. The length of the lines also varies as some lines are short strokes while others are long. The varying nature of the strokes creates interest in the artwork.
This artwork has many influences ranging from other artists to Boyd’s own experiences in world war 2. Boyd was conscripted …show more content…
the entire drawing is made up of lines. The lines are completely black contrasting with the lightness of the paper. The different variants in lines create emphasis on certain sections of the artwork. The chimney is completely coloured in which gives it emphasis. this draws your attention to it giving it more importance to the meaning of the artwork. the organic-ness of the lines on the figure compared to the geometric-ness of the rest of the drawing helps emphasise the figure. the figure also occupies half the paper but this is balanced out by the emphasis on the chimney.
This painting depicts a crippled figure being created by the smoke of a chimney in a concentration camp. This figure looks grotesque and scary as it walks towards the viewer. While also being scary the figure looks futile as they are crippled. this figure represents people who very killed in concentration camps and the futility and violence of war. the halo surrounding the figures head represents the fact that good people died in war for no reason. This artwork is a political piece representing the ugliness and violence or war causing the death or innocent and good
This artwork depicts a crippled figure walking away from what looks like a chimney. The figure looks to be created by the smoke as if they were a ghost or not real. The figure only has one leg and is using crutches. The figures head is surrounded by circles like a halo. The figure is staring at you while walking away from the chimney and the barbed wire fence behind it.
This artwork is drawn with ink on paper. Boyd has used different thicknesses of lines and strokes. The length of the lines also varies as some lines are short strokes while others are long. The varying nature of the strokes creates interest in the artwork.
This artwork has many influences ranging from other artists to Boyd’s own experiences in world war 2. Boyd was conscripted …show more content…
the entire drawing is made up of lines. The lines are completely black contrasting with the lightness of the paper. The different variants in lines create emphasis on certain sections of the artwork. The chimney is completely coloured in which gives it emphasis. this draws your attention to it giving it more importance to the meaning of the artwork. the organic-ness of the lines on the figure compared to the geometric-ness of the rest of the drawing helps emphasise the figure. the figure also occupies half the paper but this is balanced out by the emphasis on the chimney.
This painting depicts a crippled figure being created by the smoke of a chimney in a concentration camp. This figure looks grotesque and scary as it walks towards the viewer. While also being scary the figure looks futile as they are crippled. this figure represents people who very killed in concentration camps and the futility and violence of war. the halo surrounding the figures head represents the fact that good people died in war for no reason. This artwork is a political piece representing the ugliness and violence or war causing the death or innocent and good