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Hollow Men
Published: 2007-10-05 18:18:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 29094; Favourites: 1087; Downloads: 954
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Loosely based on the short story "The Hollow Men" about an unidentified man who's suicide brings little interruption to the faceless, standardized, gridded-out lives of urban New York.{watercolor+photoshop}
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I see the hands of the man committing suidcide...
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I saw the best minds if my generation being run down by the drunken taxicabs of Absolute Reality.
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nice perspective and use of shadow, i really like this piece
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It took a little time for me to find the falling person, but then it kind of struck me...great composition.
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good color,beautifull topic. Nice the shadow of the falling man.
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why is there a hand on top? is that the shadow?
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its such a coencidence, i analysing this poem for english and browsing DA at the same time and found this. WOW, i love the fact that they are faceless,
its like passing through time passively. hey i got an idea for analysis thx to this
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i love those hands hanging out at the top...and then i just realized it was a falling body! great illustration, my friend.
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i love how you need to stare at the picutre for a few seconds before the suicide registers.
the blunt truth of it is even better
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how oblivious they are to the impact eminent...
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The hands.
There is a painting called the Fall of Icarus - a huge, beautiful painting, and there (!) in the corner are two legs flailing out of the sea.
The same uninterrupted flow where no one notices the detail unless something else gives it away. In Icarus, the painting is bucolic; in this, the antithesis.
I love.
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It's awesome that you did this with watercolour. It's interesting to see a grayscale watercolour piece, as they're usually so colorful.
You mentioned that it's loosely based on a short story, but I think it also fits nicely with T.S. Elliot's poem "The Hollow Men":
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass
In our dry cellar
Shape without form, shade without colour,
Paralysed force, gesture without motion;
Those who have crossed
With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom
Remember us -- if at all -- not as lost
Violent souls, but only
As the hollow men
The stuffed men.
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I like how you can barely see the man falling at the top
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Great.
I have never read "The Hollow Men", but this reminds me a lot of the gray men who smoke time in "Momo", by Michael Ende.
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The most perfect usage of watercolour I've ever seen! Truly a disturbing and yet so truthful piece.
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Really fitting way to portray the subject. Didn't notice at first, which is obviously all the better. + fave
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Β‘The Gray Men! Like the men in MOMO by Michel Ende.
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wow that's so interesting and the painting is really cool !!!!
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Great composition, strong sense of values. You really worked the concept well too with all the faces vague and shadowed. Congrats on the DD!
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This is really, really good. I love your use of tones, of shadows, the details you provide and the details you choose to leave out. This is fantastic.
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Amazing piece. It actually took me a bit to find him, but when I saw the hands and shadow at the top and left I jumped a little! Congrats on the DD.
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Wow this is awesome.
The piece is perfect
The men in suits look amazing...
You can feel the emotion from just looking at it.
Great job!
& Congrats on the DD 
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I really love the picture!
I really like the name of the picture!
I really like your username!
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thats amazing.and it really fits your description.i love it.
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Good illustration of that. Totally get it across with just how you colored and drew all of it.
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does the story this is based off of have any connection to "The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot? That's my favorite poem XD
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yeah i agree. similar themes, the short story might have been influenced by it.
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Wow. Stunning, moving, and harsh. The concept is so ruthless and, unfortunately, so true. Well-done.
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Perspective, angle, mood, detail...ALL brilliant.
Good job
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Awesome picture. Kind of along the lines of a piece I did too.
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amazing.
the title actually reminded me of T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"...totally different idea, though.
good work!
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yeah i agree. similar themes, the short story might have been influenced by it.
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When I saw this I was actually reminded of the book, A Brave New World.
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