Everybody NOT Draw Muhammad Day
Readers will recall that a few days ago, I announced this Sunday to be "Everybody NOT Draw Muhammad Day" because I believe "that we must all stand up for our right not to draw Muhammad, else even that right will be taken from us!"
The response has been overwhelming. Among the billions of people who didn't draw Muhammad were three artists who went to the trouble of sending in their non-depictions of Muhammad. First and foremost is Dario Rivarossa, with the punny That's Not M!
That's Not M!
Dario Rivarossa
Mr. Rivarossa's work, with its vertiginous perspective from the upper heights of skyscrapers and its swirl of bright colors against a gray background, appears to portray Spiderman swinging through NYC's urban jungle, and perhaps another superhero as well, possibly Daredevil. Obviously not Muhammad!
Next comes a work sent in by Horace Jeffery Hodges, imaginatively titled Not Muhammad:
Not Muhammad
Horace Jeffery Hodges
Mr. Hodges, in a simple facial sketch against an even simpler, bold-red background, takes particular pains to ensure there be no misunderstanding, that this is not Muhammad! But is it also not art?
And finally, we see a true masterpiece of not-Muhammad art, En-Uk Sequoya Hwang's Daddy:
Daddy
En-Uk Sequoya Hwang
Mr. Hwang's drawing is a bold postmodernist colored sketch that appears to allude to the Cubists with the triangular slap of black to his father's face, but the drawing also recalls the ancient Egyptian manner of portraying heads from the side rather than the front. There might also be an allusion to a famous sketch of Darwin, given the massive brow. At any rate, you see that Mr. Hwang's art looks nothing like Muhammad. Of course, it also looks nothing like me . . .
There we have it! Three great works of astonishing artistry not depicting Muhammad. Our right not to draw Muhammad is safe.
I hearby declare "Everybody NOT Draw Muhammad Day" to have been an astounding success!
Labels: Art, Dario Rivarossa, En-Uk, Muhammad
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 6:15 AM
9 comments
9 Comments:
I initially thought the huge black space represented the void behind your artificial nose. But then I saw your nose, outlined in yellow, so now I have no idea what the black space represents.
I also couldn't help noticing the presence of chin stubble. Is this how you present yourself to your university students? Did En-Uk capture the harsh reality?
"Ah, but it is postmodern stubble!" guffawed Gandalf, eyes twinkling, as he pulled on his pipe and blew another smoke ring.
Weekends are for stubble. I still don't know about the black triangle. It's art, no need to understand.
Jeffery Hodges
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The response has been overwhelming. Among the billions of people who didn't draw Muhammad...
Hmm-m-m, how can you say that? Maybe the whole mankind did draw M., without telling you! We would need some bit of searching, home by home. To have it done faster, before any evidence can be destroyed, I will take the western emisphere, you the eastern one, right?
Well, I've already checked the Muslim world and found no such drawings . . .
Jeffery Hodges
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Brand new! Finished right now:
no M at all
for the website
GoNagaiNet, gonagai.forumfree.it
Hmmm . . . I dunno, looks profitable.
Jeffery Hodges
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looks profitable
against an alien invasion, you mean? you bet!
[most probably in U.S. and Korea Tekkaman means nothing, but he is a star to Italian 40 y.o. anime fan-artists. Excuse me if I take advantage of your blog, but it was the first time I drew this Japanese super-hero, I was so excited that I couldn't help posting it... so, are only talibans supposed to be "the menace to rationality"? ha ha]
Well, I didn't want anyone to image it was 'prophetable' . . .
Nice image, though, and good to see that you don't 'shirk' your work.
Jeffery Hodges
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I would like to do / to make one thousand thing more---
without the Net, life would be much sadder (not wiser, however...)
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