Social Issue Responce

Paul Kuczynski is a modern contemporary artist. He is an American who has clearly kept up to date on social issues. The social issues that most of us see on the news but just look past or don’t grasp the severity of the issue influence his artwork. His artwork is created by the use of digital illustration and maybe a little use of watercolor. His works remind me of political cartoons with much more detail and instead of focusing on politics he focuses on larger issues. My favorite piece depicts men cleaning black smoke as if it were a window. The issue depicted is clearly pollution and how we try to cover it up to seem okay. A lot of his works have to do with destroying our environment and also how the government and wars are ridiculous. In some of his pieces he used greed to show motivation. The images are very dramatic to stress the issue and each one combines two everyday things that contrast each other. Window washers and smoke stacks are things we have grown used to seeing everyday but when you put them together the contrast creates drama and does a good job of getting the issue across. Paul’s works are very inspiring to me and some of them have given me good ideas that might reflect in my own composition.