Title: The last meal
Name: Xin Hou
Country: China
Submitted: 14th February 2014
Life never ready to us, who had expected a letter changed the fate of a family, just like that.Father’s calm, the mother’s default, the child’s panic.Our ordinary people dream is world peace.
Xin Hao, this is really a moving image. It is beyond the captivating imagery and photorealism. The story you’ve incorporated to this is very powerful and inspiring.
Great great great piece of art!
-Reyn
The only good thing coming from despicable actions like that is indeed art.
Very nice image although I find the content very grim, certainly since it’s happening in Iraq/Afghanistan every week that children are abused and forced by their brain-washed parents (mainly fathers) into religious indoctrination and ultimately conflict and death because of it.
Cobra 6
Wow. Art with a message! This will likely hit a nerve with some people, but in my opinion that’s what art should do.
Seriously awesome work. Not just story wise, but technically too.
Top job.
Who started the first world war ? Muslims ? Who started the second world war ? Muslims ? Who killed about 20 millions of Aborigines in Australia ? Muslims ?? Who sent the nuclear bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ?.. Muslims ?? Who killed more than 100 millions of Indians in North America ? Muslims ?? Who killed more than 50 millions of Indians in south America ? Muslims ?? Who took about 180 millions of African people as slaves and 88% of them died and was thrown in Atlantic ocean ? Muslims ?? No , They weren’t Muslims!!! First of all, You have to define terrorism properly… If a non-Muslim do something bad…it is crime. But if a Muslim commit same…he is terrorist… So first remove this double standard…then come to the point!!!..
power-3d, I’m not sure what your point is. Your rhetorical questions are not relevant, and you have not identified a double standard as far as this forum thread goes. But feel free to design and post provocative art about WWII, colonialism, slavery, etc. If you are venting in general about “terrorism” and who gets to define that word, there are other political forums for that.
Do you have a specific critique for this illustration or are you simply unhappy about dirty laundry being aired? Child abuse takes many forms all over the world and there should be art like this piece to identify and challenge the individuals or factions who perpetuate it, no matter the nationality or religious affiliation.
My only critique is that the child’s hands seem a little small, but that could be due to foreshortening. The expressions on each character’s face (or lack thereof) are tragic in their own way.
Fantastic work here … and a very powerful image. I love the expressions on the faces, and lighting is telling the story well. Epic work mate !!
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Hey power-3d … take it easy man, this is an art forum and people here do not attack any ethnic or religious group (which is one reason I love this place) , You can personally disagree with the idea of the image without asking those questions.
This is some powerful stuff!
What I love about this picture the most is how the dynamite can be overlooked at first.
I guess it will bring on political arguments soon…
Maybe you should get the point first? Try to read the message instead of judging just what you see. Don’t be one-dimensional. Or do you like kids being used as bombs (no matter where or by whom…)? Do you want anywhere on the world that people are so desperate that life is thrown away so easily (and that people think it’s ok)? There is a lot of ground to cover and the image could be standing for a lot of things that make this image so intruiging but certainly it is not an offense at muslims (the same could have happened in Africa. kids die all day long there, probably sitting with a machine gun at the table…).
Yeah, maybe it is a bit stereotype that he actually used a family that is muslim (that would be my only crit…) but then it is exactly this choice that adds to the controversial art (I wouldn’t mind the author to share his thoughts on his intentions to calm the crowd).
Anyway, great and catching work!
