Deep Thinking by Jæn
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Medium: Pen, Paper, Photoshop
Dimensions: 2160 x 2160 px
Year: 2021
Status: available
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Why collect this work?
A crowded square portrait turns the pose of collective intelligence into comedy, using competing gazes and exaggerated feline faces to prevent any single figure from commanding the scene.
- Jæn states that his practice seeks alignment between concept and aesthetics. Here, the catalogue’s mock-philosophical description corresponds with expressions that hover between solemn attention, vacancy and alarm.
- In the supplied image, overlapping bodies fill nearly every part of the frame. Repeated frontal eyes scatter attention, while the large dark figure entering from the lower right breaks the stacked group-portrait structure with an open, toothy mouth.
- The documented medium is pen, paper and Photoshop. It makes possible a meeting of fine drawn marks with broad, sharply differentiated areas of colour, keeping each silhouette readable despite the compressed composition.
- Dated 2021, Deep Thinking can anchor a display about how digital images borrow the authority of portraiture for comic ends. Its title and catalogue text frame the cats as thinkers, but their incompatible expressions keep that claim unresolved.
About the Artist
Jæn
Jæn is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: digital-art. Based in Bordeaux, France.
Nationality: French
Jæn's art bridges his surreal & psychedelic influences with a conceptual and experimental avant-garde spirit.
