Aim High, 2012 - David Shrigley
About the Work
About Aim High
David Shrigley's prints are oddly humorous, ironic, and thought-provoking, appearing as if drawn by a precocious child with a particularly dry-eyed view of the world. His drawings are always matched with words, short phrases, or anecdotes, like advertisements for ...Read More
David Shrigley's prints are oddly humorous, ironic, and thought-provoking, appearing as if drawn by a precocious child with a particularly dry-eyed view of the world. His drawings are always matched with words, short phrases, or anecdotes, like advertisements for the human psyche. In this piece, Shrigley mordantly undercuts the inspirational maxim "aim high" by showing an arrow shot into the top of an archery target—a literal take that defeats the advice's purpose, since what you'd really want to do is hit the bullseye. Read Less
About the Artist
About David Shrigley
David Shrigley is an artist and illustrator best known for his mordantly humorous cartoons. Self-branded as an outsider in the art world, Shrigley is known ...Read More
David Shrigley is an artist and illustrator best known for his mordantly humorous cartoons. Self-branded as an outsider in the art world, Shrigley is known for making flat compositions that take on the inconsequential, the bizarre, and the disquieting elements of everyday life. Like the musings of a very wise child displaying the wit and humor of a seasoned observer of the adult world, his illustrations feature crossed-out words, scribbled, uneven lines, and darkly funny aphorisms about the world.
In recent years, Shrigley has expanded his practice to include filmmaking. He directed the video for indie-king Bonnie "Prince" Billy's song Agnes, Queen of Sorrow and co-directed an animated film with award-winning director Chris Shepherd based on Shrigley's book Who I Am and What I Want. A weekly contributor of cartoons to the Guardian Weekend magazine, he released his first spoken-word album Shrigley Forced to Speak With Others in 2006, which was followed by a double-CD of artists, including David Byrne, Islands, and Grizzly Bear, who put Shrigley's book Worried Noodles to music.Read Less
In recent years, Shrigley has expanded his practice to include filmmaking. He directed the video for indie-king Bonnie "Prince" Billy's song Agnes, Queen of Sorrow and co-directed an animated film with award-winning director Chris Shepherd based on Shrigley's book Who I Am and What I Want. A weekly contributor of cartoons to the Guardian Weekend magazine, he released his first spoken-word album Shrigley Forced to Speak With Others in 2006, which was followed by a double-CD of artists, including David Byrne, Islands, and Grizzly Bear, who put Shrigley's book Worried Noodles to music.Read Less
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Woodblock print on Hahnemühle copperplate 300gr paper.Authentication
Signed and numbered by the artist in white pencil on recto.Shipping
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