Silly Face in a Checkered Shirt Sitting Surrounded by a Purple Fantasy
by Lise Winne
Title
Silly Face in a Checkered Shirt Sitting Surrounded by a Purple Fantasy
Artist
Lise Winne
Medium
Photograph - Drawing, Digital Art
Description
Please note that the watermark in the lower right corner will not appear on any ordered prints or products (needed for on-line display only).
I actually pictured this in my head before I created it. I wanted to make something fun and lighthearted, but continue to work in a way that I have for many of my latest art pieces. This was the result: a jester-like man with red hair and an unusual nose, and a sore looking chin, with a purple and yellow outfit on, with all kinds of bright turquoise and yellow confetti falling down behind him. He is featured with a purple background, and two green borders, one ornate, the other square.
In Tarot symbolism, the Jester (or Fool) represents the unconscious, pangs of guilt, the wisdom that people would sometimes prefer not to hear. The Fool at court speaks in riddles, poems and non-sequiturs to keep royal figureheads from looking at him as a threat (they see him as crazy instead ... however, if you read Shakespeare, you know that fools are often more in touch with the truth than other people).
Cartoons are often about "the child within." We either take situations seriously or we don't, and when cartoons are silly and inconsequential enough, we don't. So in some ways, it has a very similar meaning as the jester.
Purple is symbolic of royalty, extravagance, wealth, grandeur, mystery and magic.
Works in my "Silly Characters and Creatures" collection of works might work as a grouping of pillows for a child's room, or serve as a small print on the wall.
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August 25th, 2020
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