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The florks remind me of Dubuffet.
Don't suppose anyone's heard of Jean Dubuffet?
It's particularly interesting how it's in dialogue with the synthetic & collage aspects of fella profile pic art.
Don't suppose anyone's heard of Jean Dubuffet?
It's particularly interesting how it's in dialogue with the synthetic & collage aspects of fella profile pic art.
https://twitter.com/Official_NAFO/status/1669509525844492288?s=20
If you think of mid-late '22 NAFO visual culture as reiterating Dadaism & Lettrists in its disruption tactics (it's OK Mr. Jarvis, I know you don't know, go read an art history book)
You could see where NAFO art is going as reiterating that same progress.
You could see where NAFO art is going as reiterating that same progress.
https://twitter.com/JoohnChoe/status/1581040699402657797?s=20
the "flork" aesthetic is markedly much more minimal than fin de siècle (use a dictionary) '22 and early '23 NAFO style
it eschews almost all the visually maximalist cues used in pfps (bright clothes, lurid weaponry) in favor of an a calligraphic style
it eschews almost all the visually maximalist cues used in pfps (bright clothes, lurid weaponry) in favor of an a calligraphic style
https://twitter.com/Official_NAFO/status/1668736965108289537?s=20
Case in point, mine.
He has a little official shirt (I don't think a lot of fellas actually have that).
The bat literally says "SANCTIONS", this was the forger's interpretation of a sanctions fella, which is, when you think about, basically the only visual solution for that.
He has a little official shirt (I don't think a lot of fellas actually have that).
The bat literally says "SANCTIONS", this was the forger's interpretation of a sanctions fella, which is, when you think about, basically the only visual solution for that.
It's not like you can, I don't know, make a little picture of a shiba inu sanctioning Khameini, what would that even look like.
The solution they chose creates a certain self-sufficiency in the result. Like, whatever that fella is in, it's a sanctions joke now.
The solution they chose creates a certain self-sufficiency in the result. Like, whatever that fella is in, it's a sanctions joke now.
Personally, I love the florks, I'm really interested to see how they're going to develop aesthetically.
There's something in Chinese calligraphy called (and this is annoying, everything sounds annoying & mystical in Chinese aesthetics) the "bones" of a brush stroke
There's something in Chinese calligraphy called (and this is annoying, everything sounds annoying & mystical in Chinese aesthetics) the "bones" of a brush stroke
In Japanese painting a similar concept recurs as a sort of bold, decisive line that expresses and evokes, just by the way it's drawn.
Great example, Hokusai's painting of Daruma. We're not seeing, like, the fifty rejected examples of the key brush stroke that Hokusai rejected.
Great example, Hokusai's painting of Daruma. We're not seeing, like, the fifty rejected examples of the key brush stroke that Hokusai rejected.
This is something close to the flork aesthetic, I think.
Memes in general already arrive at excellence through reduction; you have about fifteen words before people run out of attention, and unless there are naked people or guns, only a few seconds of looking at an image.
Memes in general already arrive at excellence through reduction; you have about fifteen words before people run out of attention, and unless there are naked people or guns, only a few seconds of looking at an image.
Memes are like sculpture. Structure emerges through subtraction; elegance is a matter of reduction. You carve away to get at the essential message to make a really viral meme.
This is something that the florks sort of capture, I think, in their calligraphic simplicity.
This is something that the florks sort of capture, I think, in their calligraphic simplicity.
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