Le Charivari: The Shadow Cast

 

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)

2020  

screenprint 

16 7/8 x 10 5/8" image size 

pencil, lower right 

2 of 20  

Text within image: Le Charivari, Journal publiant un nouveau dessin sur l'actualite / GOP / The Shadow Cast 

 

sturdy buff wove 

published 

artist 

ARHA207 

$100.00 

Beginning in 2020, Hazelwood wrote a series of essays dealing with the Covid19 pandemic, environmental disaster, and the Trump administration. He illustrated these with corresponding "covers," various broadleaf-style images that paid homage to popular satirical political magazines of generations past. He titled the works using their mastheads, including those of Gaceta Callejara, New Masses, Harper's Weekly, Le Rire, Die Aktion, Die Pleite, Simplicissimus, and - as with this work - Le Charivari.

Hazelwood stated: "The covers were designed somewhat in the spirit of the historical period. They were sent by email on the date of each publication. So the January 6, 2021 magazine cover with ‘New Masses’ masthead was sent out on that day. The use of historical magazines was done in part to give perspective on the ‘great times’ we are living through, in part to enjoy the way satirical art history plays an ongoing role after its ostensible subject has withered away. Later these images were screenprinted on French Paper and made into a portfolio."

In "The Shadow Cast," Hazelwood centers the GOP mascot on a stage, spotlights casting his suspiciously familiar 'shadow' onto the wall behind him.