STEFAN ZSAITSITS’S SURREALISTIC CHILDREN PORTRAITS

 

The Austrian-born( 1981)and -based illustrator Stefan Zsaitsits creates highly fascinating dark pencil drawings of childlike figures in which he oftenly seems to hybridize particular thoughts and emotions directly on or with the body part which is involved, mostly the head. And even if he chooses to portray his subject in a more traditional fashion, one can always observe that sense of astonishment combined with a touch of fear. The results are surrealistic and sometimes even slightly repulsive raw images, which evoke a sense of unsettlement, clearly representing the unfiltered stream of thoughts one mostly finds within the disclosure of the world in all its beauty and hardships during childhood. And although most people lose that particular perspective on the world with the years, Zsaitsits rightfully seems to question if growing up inherently has to mean the end of sincere astonishment, despite the fact that most people choose it to be the case.

 

STEFAN ZSAITSITS’S FULL BIOGRAPHY

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JIM HENSON THE PUPPETER AND HIS MUPPETS

Jim Henson was born at September 1936 at Greenville, Mississiphi. He created the lovable Muppets, a troupe of fuzzy, goggle-eyed puppets who starred in TV shows and films beginning in the 1950s. Jim Henson’s puppets began appearing on local television in Maryland in 1954, growing slowly in popularity for the next 15 years. The Muppets were part of the original cast of the children’s TV showSesame Street, launched in 1969; the show made stars of Henson creations like Kermit the Frog, Bert and Ernie, and Big Bird. Henson’s own syndicated TV series, The Muppet Show, was a major hit from 1976-81. Filled with silly jokes, bouncy musical numbers and famous guest stars, the show introduced the popular character Miss Piggy and led to movies including The Muppet Movie (1979, with cameos by Bob Hope, Orson Welles and others) and The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984). Jim Henson made a deal to sell his company to Walt Disney corporation in 1989; the deal fell through the next year, when Henson died suddenly of organ failure after an infection turned into fast-moving toxic shock syndrome. Jim Henson’s family eventually did sell the rights to the Muppet characters to the Disney company, in 2004.

*Kermit The Frog
Regularly depicted as the long-suffering boyfriend of Miss Piggy and the equally long-suffering pal to Fozzie. See also his entry on Characters Sesame Street.
He is often seen as one for Henson, who at one point said, “[Kermit] can say things I hold back.” Indeed, while Jim never lost his temper, there’s a limit to how far Kermit can be pushed before he erupts.
In The Muppet Show and beyond. Kermit does not like ad-libbing and handles very poorly under pressure. This is because ad-libbing in the Muppets actually is rather detrimental, with bizarre and unpredictable consequences.One of the most normal Muppets. Well, ‘normal’ by Muppet standards.

*MISS PIGGY

Hailing from the Midwest, Miss Piggy was living off of Beauty Contests before meeting Kermit. Has a chronic need for stardom and will steal the spotlight from anyone, with violence if necessary.While still ambitious, she’s generally less selfish and abusive in the movies, and much more affectionate towards Kermit.She’s the big guy for the team and is a born diva.: She is usually treated as such, even though she’s not a human woman,.She pummels her male co-stars, usually Kermit, on a regular basis. Female guest stars weren’t exactly safe The only icon of 70s-era feminism to be a pig voiced by a man.

*SO UNFUNNY BUT IT’S FUNNY FOZZIE BEAR

Hopelessly corny, porkpie hat-wearing showman and a magnet for tomatoes. Originally a failed comedian working out of the El Sleazo Cafe, he is the first to join Kermit’s troupe. Possibly the most genuinely nice member of the cast, and tries to be a friend and peacemaker to everyone.Wocka Wocka! And just for the record, he spelled it “Wocka Wocka”, not “Wokka Wokka” He was intended to be the primary foil of Kermit and everyone else backstage. As a result, in the earliest episodes he tends to come off as abrasive, pushy, and obnoxious. They soon found a different, more neurotic, sweet, and vulnerable vibe for him, allowing the previous personality to be quietly discarded.He was (in theory) the show’s stand-up comedian. Most of the humor of these skits came from how terrible he was at his job.

*GONZO THE GREAT

The ugly, disgusting little one who catches cannonballs.’ The only non-recognizable animal in Kermit’s band, and the stuntman of the Muppets. He doubles as a Vaudevillian singer.In early appearances, his craziness was more subtle, and was depicted as a more slightly more neurotic, pathetic star akin to Fozzie. He gradually became more happy go lucky and his torture became harder to imply, given how mch he enjoyed most of it.

*STATLER AND WALDORF

Two-man peanut gallery and patron saints of Caustic Critics everywhere. They’ve never sat through a show that they didn’t hate.Anytime the two appeared onstage on the Muppet Show. They aren’t actually part of the Muppet Show’s staff; they’re just audience members. In a different sense, any time they heckled the stage also qualifies.On the rare occasions when they enjoy a number, they’ll complain about the fact that the show is ruining its reputation – for uniformly bad material.In the Muppet Show: Sex and Violence pilot, the two talked a lot more slowly and sounded more like a couple of weak, tired, dying old men. When the Muppet Show proper began, they started talking and reacting a lot quicker and became more lively and energetic.

Statler: This show is awful.
Waldorf: Terrible!
Statler: Disgusting!
Waldorf: See you next week?
Statler: Of course.

*SCOOTER

The Muppets’ stage manager. Originally portrayed as a childish jerkass, he grew to be a dependable assistant of Kermit and co.He always says “Fifteen seconds to curtain!”
While considered to be one of the youngest of the main characters, his age is never really determined. Throughout The Mppet Show, everyone refers to him as a kid and his uncle got him the job at the theatre, so he would probably be somewhere in his teens. By The Muppets, he appears to be at least in his early 20s, seeing that he can go to a bar without getting kicked out, and some of the others tease him for still living with his mother.

Just One Person – The Muppets Tribute to Jim Henson

LONELY CHILD OF CALVIN AND HOBBES

Calvin And Hobbes was never about hyperactivity and Hobbes himself was never a manifestation of undiagnosed mania: He was manifestation of pure, unadulterated loneliness.

Loneliness is funny thing because generally it has less to do with being alone and more to do with no having other people around. That sounds paradoxical, but being alone and being isolated from your people are two different things.The former is a choice, the latter a decree. In truth, it is even more complicated than that, as loneliness can strike at any time, even when surrounded by people. That niggling sense that maybe you don’t belong is all it needs to gain a foothold.
For as much as brain of child is growing and changing and maturing, for as many distractions as the world provides to develping minds, kids aren’t stupid., particularly children as highly sensitive and attuned to the world around them as Calvin. Dissappearing into his world is coping mechanism for dealing with wprld that seems to have little patience or place for him. His isolation breeds fantasy, which breeds isolation, which does him no favors at school or at home. To be lonely child in the world means creating your own fun, your own friends, your own magic.

Calvin and Hobbes and their Spaceman Spiff fantasies were well known. He uses his imagination that way and he create a new best world for himself. Calvin actually didn’t have trouble focusing on the world around him, he had a trouble reconciling himself to he fact that the world aroumd him was such a dissappointment. Calvin made it okay to be disheartened and disappointed by life and normalized the inherent loneliness that childhood can bring. He was there for us to show how we grew up and how we learned that things we were capable of getting so much better or so much worse. Calvin was a lot of things, just like every child. He was budding inventor, a gifted artist, enterprising entrepreneur and a self- taught pundit. He was a good friend, an annoying neighbor, clever and conniving, lonely and maybe a little hyperactive. But whatever he was, he taught an entire generation of children that thougt sadness and dissapointment and loneliness may come prepackaged in life, that all could be weathered, so long as you had hope and a really good friend to see you through.
Additionally to all of these, it is a quite thing to sit down and reread comics of Calvin and Hobbes as an adult after 30 years makes us feel wierdly nostagic with warm and familiar intelligent humour and jokes. We all wish to grow up and have more friends, afraid of being wierd and to mesh with world and people We all see a thrillingly obnoxious little helion having wild and enviable escapades with a wisecracking tiger, you see a kid who is allby himself. And he is incredibly lonely like all of us.

Honestly creator of Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson has a point, The value of Calvin and Hobbesis in it’s intricately constructed explosively creative and unique world,free from the corrosive influence of advertising and merchandising. Maybe it wasn’t preserved so rigorously, it would’nt remain so whimsical and pure.
As Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes one of the quotes tells us ;
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.”
There are more important things than age, social statuses, money; your soul is ageless, it doesn’t care for how important you think you are nor how much money you’ve got. Your soul cares for love and that’s all that should matter.

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