Friday, September 01, 2006

Charlie the vandal

Charlie has always loved drawing, she has 2 art sets, loads of A3 coloured sugar paper and tons of A4 white paper. However this just isn't enough for our budding artist who is determined to express her artistic talent on as many surfaces as possible regardless of how long she has to spend in the sin-bin.
This is the wall behind the toilet door, a groundbreaking masterpiece called 'the bearded man' done in orange crayon. This portrait seems to be an impression of Van Gogh's post-impressionist self-portrait. As for the name of this new genre, Charlie has suggested 'Scribblism' going against conventional thought that describes it as 'Vandalism'.
It is less clear what our young talent was going for here on the living-room floor. The dimensions of this drawing suggests a landscape, this backed up by the choice of green crayon and laminated wood backdrop which I think have to taken into concideration.
On the wall in the upstairs wall she appears to have gone for a cave painting style. My interpretation is primitive man gathering wood for fire. This is the genius of 'Scibblism', nothing is completed only suggested which allows the viewer to use their own imagination in comprehending the image.
Not content with just sharing her artistic prowess with her family, Charlie took to the street in an attempt to inspire the local population with her misunderstood art.
This time shifting medium to the stone and using local cars as her canvas Charlie style takes on a more surrealist edge to it. Here is the 'twisted face' in this Charlie displays her ambition that money is no object in the pursuit of her art.
'the Phallus' represents what we lose in entering a world of language - the fact the message will always be slipping away, that what we want will always be out of reach because of the fact that we speak. The symbol of this distortion is the phallus.
Here's just the warm up, a few scratches before she gets creative. There are some other car canvases that haven't been pictured. They have been bought up by the gallery of modern art to be displayed next Spring.
Her creative ingenuity includes breaking up bread and spreading sand to contrast against the rug in epic 3-D landscapes. Does her creativity know no bounds?
Needless to say that in her expression Charlie has encountered some controversy including one neighbour who demand we smack her. But Charlie has shown that she won't lie down and be bullied into curbing her creative energy for anyone and is ready and willing to come out fighting.

3 comments:

ghg said...

Cute. Long overdue for a groupwork update lad! Where is it?

ghg said...

Send me your email address, Tisa wants to write to you about something.

Ismael Cavazos said...

As the inventor of Scribblism.Com and Art In A Nutshell.Com I must say - you've got a cute scribbler on your hands!! Great work!
Sincerely, Ismael Cavazos