The New Collectivism by blankfrancine

2D • Collage • posted on Feb 01, 2010

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Digital collage, The Gimp. No cats or hats were harmed in the making of this image. Thanks for dropping by.

Comments (45)

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delaorden_ojeda

5:00PM | Thu, 04 February 2010

excelent sence of humor and great work , excelente !

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densa

11:41AM | Fri, 05 February 2010

wonderful glad no harm came to the cats and the hats

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schonee

12:42PM | Fri, 05 February 2010

Too cool. love the way you think

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ragouc

6:49AM | Sat, 06 February 2010

Very good collage

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Richardphotos

9:21PM | Sun, 07 February 2010

love your composition

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2Loose2Trek

8:19PM | Mon, 08 February 2010

No cats or hats may have been injured but that fish looks like it was tortured a bit. :-O Those cats look a might shifty too ... catnip dealers? Well done.

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ekatz

2:41AM | Tue, 09 February 2010

very eyeCATching, makes a wonderful poster

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ontar1

9:57AM | Thu, 11 February 2010

Cool, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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boristen

2:16PM | Sat, 13 February 2010

It is very strange how I have missed this one. The new theater on the way. Stunning scene!

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soffy

2:13PM | Fri, 19 February 2010

I love this Mandi,excellent creation**

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Glazy

12:19PM | Wed, 24 February 2010

Superb work !!!

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KarmaSong

4:15PM | Sat, 27 February 2010

Audacious and refreshing collage... I love this bunch of cat capitalists !

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anahata.c

8:49AM | Fri, 05 March 2010

another of your references to the collectivist state, and most creative and strange and sly and funny and a bit terrifying. The two side figures seem to be out of Maoist propaganda posters. (I studied them years back, as part of a study of political & propaganda art; that woman has the classic chest-out, proud, strong-worker attitude, with proud smile and hand holding something no doubt very functional. I'm not as sure of the man on the other side, but I assume he's a happy worker too.) But the 3 central figures are all sinister & comic, feline in the worst sense (ie, from the stereotypes of cats as cunning, conning and ultimately deadly), with one cartoon cat who's a riot because it looks so nice and is probably deadly, who are dressed in what appears to be uniforms, though without insignia. I'm not too worried about hamr to the cats so much as harm to us, lol. And I too like the third arm (Cathy), as if to say, "watch yourselves, people, we will take your children if you're not careful". Then you have this European-estate background, Renaissance or 17th even 18th C. estates; maybe medieval too. No Chinese motifs that I can find! And then pure Magritte, with the derby (great touch) and high hat. (And a fedora too, if I see correctly.) And your "signature fish" too. (See how I steal Cathy's words all the time, lol?), with its reminder of the organic & its touch of menace as well. And the background seems to come from an idyllic postcard with those strange blended hues and unnatural highlights so typical of old postcards. An idyllic menace of a piece, with all the juxtapositions of great promise mixed with horrible oppression. A funny menacing image, and another of your fine visual juxtapositions. And I like the cat's eyes in the two flanking people (!), and what almost appears to be cat's whiskers on them too. Can't quite tell, but it sure looks like they're sporting a little cat-ism. Very deft, finely done, and packed as always with your wit, sense of history & always fine visual sense. I'll be back for more...

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