Tibet by Marcelo Rampazzo | Politics Cartoon

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Brazil, like China, belongs to the so-called threshold countries, where gradually an enquiring consumer society and a middle class are tentatively maturing. However the contrasts here as there are brutally hard, relentless poverty always close, ancient cultures facing the advantages, but also the problems of the global modernity. Brazilian artists, untroubled by a dictatorship and well-known for their joyous way of life, not only use watercolours to paint a carnivalesque portrait of manners, but also for the hard issues of this world. Striking and - due to high productivity – unpretentious, the 28-year-old graphic artist Marcelo Rampazzo from Sao Paulo, an educated "Bachelor of Fine Arts", plays with a double levitation in his cartoon “Tibet”, that of a Tibetan monk and of a thrown down hand grenade. Rampazzo achieves this milli-second-short frozenness of the cruel moment through the double hard shadow on the ground. And you only wish for the monks to be able to fly high enough to stay immune to back-stabbing attacks. The artist has left him enough room on the upside in his cartoon...

(toonpool.com 05/08)

6 Comments

Member		congratulations, I saw this in the selected cartoons section. creative jones, on June 13, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		das ist sehr gut - eine ausnahme hier ! NIL auslaender, on June 07, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Staff		congratz for beeing selected! :) Battlestar, on May 30, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		Thanks for the words! Marcelo Rampazzo, on May 23, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Member		Cartoonius wrote: Lá faz o bumm, e o kracht' s! Boa idéia! Wie meinen? :-S Roquestar, on April 16, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]

Deleted		Da macht es bumm, ja und das kracht's! Gute Idee! Lá faz o bumm, e o kracht' s! Boa idéia! , on April 16, 2008 [report post] [quote] [reply]