ARTS 1301
“Overcoming Obstacles” by Gilbert Garcin
Gilbert Garcin - a modern French artist working in the art of traditional collage. His work laconic and ironic like deduce the viewer beyond the conventional perception and offered him a bit to think about life and its absurdity. Author of all time, uses photos of the same people, putting them beyond space, and time in the sphere of pure ideas, and refusing to reality as such proceeds to its generalized structure of its original skeleton. Armed with glue, scissors and scrap materials, he creates a surreal montage, in which he played the main role. All the works are of a certain fictional autobiography of an elderly man and already imbued …show more content…
Everything that represents this picture has very deep meaning. Basically columns mean obstacles which help us to overcome barriers in the life path. Thus the man-shooter symbolizes beginning of life, and a subject on whom he shoots means the end of life. Why is the beginning of life, because the person is located right at the beginning, and columns in the middle that says that throughout life people can have different kind of obstacles as well as big and small. The subject on the left side means the end of life; it locates on further from the man and columns. The distance between man and his ultimate goal, means how time is limited, and the sky-breadth which is unlimited. This photography reminds me a movie Bucket list. You only live once, so why not go out in style? That’s what two cancer- ward roommates, an irascible billionaire (Jack Nicholson) and a scholarly mechanic (Morgan Freeman), decide when they get the bad news. They compose a bucket list – things to do before you kick the bucket – and head off for the around-the-world adventure of their lives. Sky dive? Check. Power a Shelby Mustang around a racetrack? Check. Gaze at the Great Pyramid of Khufu? Check. Discover the joy in