Welcome back to Artist’s Corner, the bit of my blog in which I pretend that fairly rubbish drawings are actually art.
Lately I’ve been posting the same sort of inept doodles as ever, but with the added twist that my almost-two-year-old daughter had been adding her own unique take using some washable felt-tip pens.
Last week we gave you ‘Pig’, a work that was genuinely described in the comments section as being “structurally simple yet rhythmically balanced” and a “stunning display of technical mastery”.
However, in what is a definite first in this series, Little Proclaims declared herself unhappy with the finished work and yesterday morning she elected to revisit it. I think you’ll agree that her new interpretation reveals an entirely different construal to the piece. But I’ll leave the specifics once again to the comments section. For now, please enjoy “Pig – Encore”
James Proclaims! 
If the artiste is not pleased there is nothing wrong with Pig 1 becoming Pig 2. The need to re-articulate the vision, to find the real truth, to redress the perceived disappointment has led to a quite precocious re-rendering of the subject.
Never take second best! Don’t be bogged down by darkness and failures, bright-eyed one. Look to the stys! One hopes this does not make for a pre-school primma donna. Yet the true prodigy must not be restrained.
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I’m not entirely sure that this prodigy could be restrained…
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Ah yes, that boundless childish enthusiasm…
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Pig – Encore. Yes. Beautiful and striking and making not only a bold artistic statement but also providing a wonderful way to ask for a second helping of bacon.
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And there’s nothing better than a second helping of bacon…
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At least it never became green with yellow spots! Hopefully, she feels it as an improvement. I used to print off a lot of clipart stuff from the BBC web site for my daughter to colour in, but I suspect half of your daughter’s fun was having dad draw something.
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She does enjoy the ‘commissioning’ of her templates…
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This work reveals the artist’s deep passion and sensitivity. Using an intuitive and expressive painting process, each vivid stroke transforms the canvas into a luscious colorful surface bringing a sense of joy and harmony to an otherwise imperfect world.
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It was certainly intuitive
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The artist has demonstrably matured in her brushstrokes (I was fortunate in being present to witness her stroking the brush) but, sadly, Social Services have now removed the yard brush as being a hazard to health. Meanwhile, those bold new sweeps of the felt tips have given Pig a slightly whimsical look. I like it!
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Whimsical or not, I may need to remind you of the conditions of the restraining order…
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I was the required distance away but have some new binoculars!
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That’s perfectly acceptable then. Apologies for any distress I may have caused.
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That’s quite alright. I like your new PJ’s by the way!
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I STILL see a little rabbit with dots in its ears… The colouring-in is good though…
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It is hard to disagree with you
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You don’t know my wife…
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I am blown away by. Not only does the restructuring of this composition shake the fundamental equation of our existence to it’s very core, but radically redefines the entire meaning of the pig motif. Wha at first glance seem to be casual scribbles over the pigs nose become, on second glance, symbolic of a fence which entrapping the pig in bare and unsettling cage with little to console it beyond it’s own feces. As an obvious metaphor for the human race the questions posed by the placement of the pig are bold and unsettling. The yellow antenna like object over the pig’s left ear brings to mind alien spacecraft and surveillance, and brings us to that most uncomfortable of questions: are we alone?
While this updated, and admittedly much darker, depiction of the pig may unnerve some, the bold artistic genius behind it cannot be denied.
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Once again I believe you have raised the bar with you unparalleled insight
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Thank you.
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You and your daughter have both developed a unique style – as all great artists do. I know, without question, that were “Pig”, or any other piece that you two have created together hanging somewhere in a gallery, I would instantly know that you two had been at it again. (I think Freud would have a lot to say about the way you draw eyes. Just an observation.)
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A shrewd observation I dare say
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