"CHARLIE, AFTER MODERN TIMES" _ The Last Laugh<\/p>\n
Here, there is almost nowhere to hide.
\nNo material to rescue a line, no colour to distract the eye, no collage to create depth.
\nThe drawing is exposed in its vulnerability.<\/p>\n
Here, there is nothing between the gesture and the gaze.
\nHere, there is only the line.<\/p>\n
The black paper becomes almost the cinema screen, the white line becomes the projected image.<\/p>\n
Chaplin has been taken out of his film and placed into our present.<\/p>\n
Reduced to the essential:
\nblack, white, the character, the gesture.<\/p>\n
And the emotion: The sadness is real, facing the collapse of this world.<\/p>\n
Technique: White Posca, directly without any back-up escape, on Black Paper Glassy* \/(my own term*).<\/p>\n
Chaplin, the figure of laughter, appears here without laughter. He is holding something that belongs to childhood \u2014 a teddy bear, almost a remaining piece of innocence \u2014 while his attitude seems to express the feeling that this is a world that no longer gives us much to laugh about.<\/p>\n
The modern times have accelerated too fast. the machine accelerates too fast, .
\nthe life is moving too fast. World boiling with its mistakes inside.
\nThe solution for an old gentleman-clown, take his hat, and his "canne-nounours" and go away.<\/p>\n
This is an image of "Grande Po\u00e9sie"<\/p>\n
Yes, there is the "teddy bear", introducing the childhood brutally into the scene.
\nBrutally \u2014 Yes, because it is almost cruel. This cute childhood object seems to have lost its innocence too. A black heart and these scratched, broken lines across the teddy bear, revealing he is in sadness.<\/p>\n
This Chaplin is looking at our Modern Times.
\nAnd the conclusion is simple: this is a world that no longer gives us much to laugh about.
\nPerhaps we too have to start taking stock of things, without laughing at them anymore, I fear\u2026
\nwithout wasting any more time, because the next \u201cmodern times\u201d are already here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Monroe<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3213,"featured_media":407768,"template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"o","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"product_cat":[24,489],"product_tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/407766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=407766"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galeriaazur.art\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=407766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}