To say that the hottest series recently is "Squid Games", which has been ranked first in the world in the Netflix TV show category for seven consecutive days. Whether it is the thrilling plot or the controversial Wu Jing's same green sportswear, the topic of "Squid Game" continues to be talked about, and the screen is frequently brushed. But today we are going to discuss a different, leaving aside all the above hot spots, let's look at the scene settings and visual arts in the play, and dig deep into the beauty of the "squid game".
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Different from other survival games with high IQ games, meticulous reasoning, and dangerous plots, "Squid Games" cleverly chooses the common childhood games in Asia and even the world, and a simple introduction can quickly understand and resonate.
The sugar game launched on major social media also confirms the correct choice of cultural matrix.
The hit of the squid game has also led to phenomenal repercussions. Since the show's premiere on September 17, one of the lead actors, Jung Ho-yeon, has soared from 40,000 to 15 million followers on Instagram, making her the most popular South Korean actress on the platform.
As a former model, Cheng performed for Louis Vuitton at the Spring/Summer 2017 fashion show and has also worked with other A-list luxury brands such as Chanel, Fendi and Miu Miu. On Wednesday, he was highly appointed permanent ambassador by Louis Vuitton.
In addition to the high-energy plot, "Squid Games" also takes into account offline derivatives, and various pop-up games based on the content of "Squid Games" have emerged in Paris and Seoul. Fans from all over the world have gone to punch in, and some even queued for hours for them.
Squid Games is a coffee pop-up shop in Paris, France
Squid Games offers a pop-up event at Itaewon Subway Station in Seoul
Artist Ludo created works on the subject matter of Squid Games
In addition to a variety of foreshadowing, metaphors and ideas that can be discussed, the scene setting and visual design of the play are also very worthy of our careful study.
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Visual arts in Squid Games
When you look at the screen of "The Squid Game", will you have a sense of déjà vu of watching Wes Anderson's films, which is not only derived from the popular millennial fans of "The Grand Budapest Hotel", but also from the use of symmetrical aesthetics.
Squid Games blends retro industrialism into a symmetrical aesthetic, highlighting the tight class and cosmopolitan group portrait of the worker. In the game world, you can see the beauty of retro industrial symmetry, and you can also see the beauty of red and green contrasting colors.
The image of the performer tends to stay in odd numbers, which is more visually interesting.
And the most colorful scene setting in the whole play is not an intricate color staircase!
This eerie architectural inspiration came from a 1953 painting by the famous Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher, Relativity.
The painting depicts a world where Earth's gravity does not apply. There are 3 gravitational sources in the painting, and each tool person climbs the stairs along his own gravity world trajectory without interfering with each other, and the surreal sense of the whole painting is very strong.
Escher is known for his mathematical prints, often relying on realistic details, surreal architectural concepts, and distorted logic that makes the viewer addicted to his paintings.
His unique aesthetic of space has inspired many contemporary films, such as the moving staircase in Harry Potter.
Penrose stairs in Inception.
(The famous mathematical paradox, although a person walks up the stairs all the way up, but actually keeps turning in circles at the same level)
The triangle table that appears in the penultimate round is also from the artist's work.
This evening table features a unique triangular design inspired by the large visual art dinner party of feminist artist Judy Chicago.
The table, presented in an equilateral triangle, symbolizes the concept of "equality" in the feminist movement, with 13 great women's dining seats on each side, and 13 is also the number of people who appear in the biblical "last supper."
Film and television works are a kind of comprehensive art that integrates a variety of arts, and good art design can effectively set off the atmosphere and allow the audience to immerse themselves in it to achieve empathy.
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A combination of art and popular culture
In addition to the clever use of classic works of art in film and television dramas, film and television drama themes are often depicted in works of art, and these deeply rooted roles can make it easier for viewers to understand the meaning of artistic expression and appreciate the presentation of this artistic method.
Roy Lichtenstein 《Look Mickey》 1961
Since the birth of Pop Art, popular elements have been increasingly used in works of art, such as comic strips, fast food and trademarked packaging for amplification and reproduction. Lichtenstein once said: I try to take advantage of a vulgar subject and reorganize its form to make it immortal. The difference between the two may not be significant, but it is extremely important. This trend has also become more and more intense today.
Among the fashion art we are familiar with, there are many classics that depict film and television series, such as KAWS's "The Simpsons".
On April 1, April 1, KAWS spoof "The Simpsons" and The Beatles' painting "The KAWS Album" (2005) sold for HK$115.966 million (US$14.8 million) from Sotheby's in Hong Kong, surpassing the estimate by 15 times the estimate, setting a new personal auction record.
Sotheby's catalogue refers to the KAWS Album as "the most mature work on canvas ever created by KAWS ( aka Brian Donnelly ) " . In what is considered the perfect combination of witty humor and subversive appropriation, KAWS borrowed From The Yellow Album, the Simpsons animated version of the Beatles' album Sgt. A spoof version of the cover of Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band replaces the yellow cartoon characters with their own "Kimpsons" characters, replacing their eyes with their own representative "XX".
Just last week, BALENCIAGA also released the animated short film "The Simpsons" in collaboration with "The Simpsons| Balenciaga」。
This 10-minute animation shows the fashion industry in a humorous and witty way, drawing, typing, cutting, building the runway, makeup, fitting...
The Simpsons all took to the runway to become Balenciaga models, wearing many of the out-of-the-loop designs after Demna Gvasalia took the helm.
In addition to the "Simpson Version" runway, there are also many hidden Easter eggs in the short film. The first row of spectators on the runway were also full of big names: the Q version of Isabelle Huppert and Justin Biber were almost instantly recognizable. Sitting next to Bieber are Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, their halloween look last year. Fashionable "witch head" Anna Wintour, wearing the same outfit she used to watch the show with the Queen of England.
Fun and brand promotion effects are full at the same time, and I have to admire BALENCIAGA's brain holes and creativity.
Artist Alex Gross is also a member of the popular elements. His work, also known as "low-brow art", pop surrealism, as a visual arts movement originated in the underground comic circle of the 1970s, he often contained humor, playfulness, joy, and cynicism.
Under the brush of Alex Gross, the impressive virtual characters in Marvel, DC, Game of Thrones, Star Wars and other film and television dramas play mobile phones, eat junk food, and use luxury goods, complementing the artist's anti-social, anti-entertainment, anti-over-consumption creative concept.
Alex Gross, a traditional graduate, received his BFA from the Art Center School of Design in 1990 and has since graduated from solo exhibitions in galleries across multiple countries. He also taught at the Art Center School of Design from 1994 to 2005, and was a student of artists like the artist we know as Steven Harrington.
Alex Gross has been maintaining a balance between the surreal painting style and the surreal satirical theme when creating, and his characters and artificial objects have the realistic texture of classical oil painting, and are placed under the same picture with various elements of black humor appropriation, which impresses the audience and makes people can't help but be amused, but also often triggers the audience's reflection on the phenomenon of excessive consumption, excessive reliance on brands, excessive enjoyment, addiction to mobile phones and social networks in modern society.
Unlike the art that served the aristocracy and the ruling class in the past, today's art is more for the masses. Or to reflect social phenomena or to depict the characteristics of the times, or to symbolize some kind of spiritual will.
The integration of trend art with popular culture also makes art no longer stay in the niche market, but constantly expands new boundaries, so that more ordinary people in life can understand and participate in it. In the case of the art market, younger generations of consumers are more willing to pay for works in cultural fields they are familiar with.
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