Revolutionary Red Pandas: Parody Posters by William Chua

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In the parody posters of the Singaporean illustrator William Chua, hiding pandas were on the path of revolution. Who Said The Bamboo Bear Is Cutie And Goofy? All sorts of pandas are needed, all sorts of pandas are important. They, perhaps, are also characterized by heroism and pathos! But who is to blame for the fact that the strong-willed faces of the revolutionary red pandas look more funny than sublime and serious?

An ideological poster is an extremely serious thing: it should inspire at first sight. The authors of propaganda pictures do not like jokes, because laughter instantly destroys all the pathos that the illustrators cherished and cherished. Place a panda instead of a human on such a poster, and a parody is guaranteed.

Paphos has now become synonymous with bad taste, and irony reacts to it with lightning speed with the command: "Fire!". So any, even the slightest hint of an uplifting deception in the era of postmodernism is doomed to perish amid peals of laughter.

Singaporean artist William Chua, better known on the Internet as Xiaobaosg, created a series of pictures in the style of old propaganda posters. Most often, he plays with Chinese ideological drawings, but, however, revolutionary red pandas (red - purely ideologically) coexist with a bear in a cocked hat on a horse and bamboo Uncle Sam.

The audience fell in love with William Chua's black and white bears so much that Panda Revolution not only swept internet blogs, but also spread to the real world, and now the Singapore illustrator's ideologically seasoned red pandas appear on Chinese T-shirts. However, without any agreement with the author of the pictures and, of course, without any monetary deductions.

At school, William Chua loved art lessons. But he did not immediately decide to make his hobby the main occupation. But when he got tired of working in the office from 9 to 5, the artist said to himself: “We only live once” - and went for free designer bread. At first, William Chua drew pictures for T-shirts that his acquaintances ordered, and then he got involved and became a serious designer. And, by the way, only then did I start thinking about art education.

William Chua calls himself the term "kidult" - a child in adult skin. The illustrator loves comics and collects toys. Most of all he likes Japanese and Chinese culture. William Chua is fond of retro style and tries in every possible way to convey the atmosphere of vintage posters, populating them with funny red pandas.