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By BenHeine
on February 16, 2008

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Ben Heine is a provocateur! But even if you reject his harsh criticism of Israel's policies in the Gaza Strip (like this writer), his messages, verging on the simplistic, pack a punch. They recall John Heartfield's agitprop images, but created with a blogger's tools: political protest and activism as streaming poetic diary entries on the Web. Heine is a master of his craft. He draws on a variety of expressionist and surrealist role models, including George Grosz and René Magritte, and combines images, poems and essays with great virtuosity. This "hunting" scene in Iowa, which was commissioned as a book illustration, is given an unreal, nearly ghostly depth by the expressionless faces of the Christian hunters, the vanishing point of the lettuce fields, just out of view, and the iconographic elements such as weapons and cars. Hannah Arendt's banality of evil, transported to the American heartland.

(toonpool.com 02/08)

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It is not his criticism of Israel's policies that are objectionable, it is the anti-Semitism that runs through much of his work. There is a difference!!!

, on April 11, 2008  report post  reply applause 0

 

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incredible good!

aaron mund, on February 17, 2008  report post  reply applause 0

 

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Great composition! I like the vanishing point at the end of the spinach fields, the gradient on the cars, the cars themselves, the democratic scarecrow and the no-face jesus rifleman. Very surreal, thanx for uploading.

Crazy. Can't believe my eyes.

prinzparadox, on February 16, 2008  report post  reply applause 0

 

 

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