👓Caption Contest 24 : Completing six months in box office ............💰💲📣📢
Six Months, Yes, this Original Caption Contest is completing six months in box office. There are two other Caption contests running, you may check out them as well.
Now heading to the contest, Can you guess what is this ? Give an appropriate caption in 10 words, justify your caption in a short paragraph , and stand in a chance to win 4 SBD. Runner up will get 3 SBD, and three mentions will get 1 SBD each. And to complete six months there will be some surprise rewards.
RULES
- Upvote this post and leave your caption along with justification as comment in this post.
- Caption should be within 10 words. And there is no restriction to the length of your justification. You can make a post justifying the caption and leave your caption along with post link.
- Captions without proper justification will not be accepted.
- Usage of vulgar or obscene words will be considered as disqualification and even may be flagged.
- Only entries posted as comments here will be considered. You can use this image, as this is my own image.
- You should give only one entry. Giving more than one entry will disqualify your participation.
- Resteem this post so that we have more participants to make this more interesting and increase the reward.
- Deadline of submission is till Sunday.
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At a glance, I could see a sculptor trying to create an image of a woman. He is successful halfway but it ultimately leads to his downfall. His search for ultimate perfection deceives him - leading to his untimely doom.
The sculpture: In my subjective interpretation, the tall humanoid figure with protruding breasts depict a sculpture of a woman half done. We can see how the figure has rounded edges and geometric figures as its body parts. This figure represents an attempt to create a replica of a woman's body, with a perfectly chiseled body parts and an alluring facade.
The sculptor: We can see a man who is holding a mallet justifying him as a sculptor. He is undeniably a great artist, equipped with the necessary tools to create any work of art. We can also see how he is not in his best shape evidenced by his unruly hair and protuberant belly. This may be the very reason why he seeks beauty in his work - searching for perfection in the body of a woman who will make him feel like a greater man. His creation is a depiction of his desire for companionship, love and belonging.
His Downfall: The evident fall depicts how counterproductive his endeavor is. The blindfold of the sculpture is an anti-metaphor to the popular saying, "The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides" As the sculpture does not have eyes, love is shallow as how beauty is a superficial means to seek perfection and fulfillment. He attributes his creation, this sculpted woman whom he very much adores, to happiness. Unfortunately, it can never be so.
An Antithesis of the Myth of Pygmalion and Galatea
In the Greek Myth, Pygmalion was a sculptor who made a beautiful sculpture. The immense beauty of his creation enchanted the Gods. Aphrodite made her come to life, blessed their nuptials and they lived happily ever after. While this may seem as a rather heartwarming love story, it certainly is not true to life.
In fact, the story of Pygmalion and his Galatea appears to be toxic in real life situation. His devotion to his creation reduces love to a mere materialism. I could even say that it is self-indulging, as he fell in love with his own creation. Beauty becomes the ultimate basis for a lasting relationship and strips away a woman's individuality for her facade alone. Ultimately, man's pursuit for a woman's perfection beguiles him and leads to his downfall.
Here is a link to my post: https://steemit.com/art/@josejirafa/caption-contest-24-or-man-s-superficial-pursuit-of-a-woman-s-perfection-beguiles-him
@sanmi - Kudos on the successful six months under the belt. May there be many more. I have been inspired by my group's "Topic of the Week" to do a contest. So, this is my first contest - so lets give it a go!
CAPTION: OUR RETURN TO MOTHER EARTH - DEPICTED IN 2D
JUSTIFICATION
The graphics depicts a mother drawing here child nearer to her. This shown by the firm grip the mother has, and the clambering action upward by the "child" toward the "mother" - this is further reinforced by her smile - It is a happy reunion, a coming together and not a parting.
The mother represents "Mother Earth" and the child represents "Humankind". Mother and child are depicted in earthy tones representing the dust of the earth. The mother's red belly represents the earths molten core and the blue veins represents life giving water.
"Mother Earth's" eye's are blind-folded as she does not discriminate among any of her children. She receive's "them" all back gladly.
The child, clearly represents "humankind" - the hammer could be defined a symbol of human tools and technology.
The wall socket represents the power of the universe that "Mother Earth" is plugged into - correctly shown as wireless.
Finally, the paintbrushes, symbolizes the 2 dimensional depiction.
Uff... u only can do it😊
Caption: The Genuine Builder
Justification: I captioned it the genuine builder because the photo depicts a mother with a child on her tummy. As we all know our mother is our furst teacher, first friend, first in almost everything. Through her patience and outlook of beauty we, as her child begin to look for beauty in everything we do. As they said, every king has a queen on his back and that is our mother. We credit all our achievements, in work, in life, in relationship to one of the most important person in our life. For what ever we are today, we owed it to our mother.
Nice! This is a great but hard contest :) Keep it up Mr. @sanmi :D
Great art work :)
Congratulations on first 6 months and may your steemit blessing grow.
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( STOLEN GENERATIONS AND TEARS NOT FORGOTTEN )
Justification
I see an artist impression, where the brushes paint more than just a picture, but through the power of emotion, truth, and burried subject. The artist tells a story that has plauged the earth and all the cultures living on it since the dawn of civilisation.
We can see the child being torn from it's mother and the hammer in it's hand depicts the final and divisive descion that can not be reversed, his fate is sealed. It also highlights the childs destined future of entering the slave industry of untold cruelties and exploitation.
In so many lands and islands, mountain villages, cities and isolated tribes, social indifference has allowed woman and men to be dominted and abused, and their families ransacked, and innocent children taken, never to be seen again.
In Australia the indigenous people! ( ABORIGINALS ) Had many atrocities committed against them. But to a parent there is nothing worse than having your children forcibly removed from you, you just want to curl up and die.
This is what happened all over the country and it is called the Stolen generations.
I believe the artist can hear their calls from the earth, and see their tears in every stroke of the brush hitting the canvas.
And as the oil in the paint hardens it describes the torture of brocken bonds that cant be healed for the millions that never had the opportunity to taste peace and family life. stolen, but not forgotten, stolen but not forgotten, this picture is a tribute to the stolen and their not forgotten.
It's also an indictment on society today to still allow this inhumane practise to continue. Not forgotten implies, not to tolerate or allow it to happen again.
After following all rules, this is my humble entry...
CAPTION:
"GODS; BY MAN, FOR MAN, TO THE DETRIMENT OF MAN"
JUSTIFICATION:
The picture above at first is not easy to decipher. But in my own way, i have given it a meaning. First, there is a budha-like figure with seemingly open arms enmeshed on the wall. Then there is what seems like the beginning of a cross at the belly of the same figure. This to me, represents the divergent religions around tge world today.
Then there is a a painting by the right of what to me looks like the side of a book (some may see a pole-like figure but for me thats a side view of some kind of big holy book). There are also three figures in the right that represents to me the various insignia of the different religious denominations(on the other hand, it could also be a few paint brushes, either ways my story would fit, just keep reading ).
Then there is a man, now here is the vital part. He is doing two things at once. First, he is trying to worship the figure he himself has created (the hammer in his hands show that he created the figure himself). At the same time, he is falling down. Tgis is where the twist comes in: he would be down already but for a hand seemingly holding him on his left arm, this arms seems to come from a door. To me, that represents reality (slowly trting to drag him out of this confused situation back to the real world, but slowly loosing the battle.) Who wins at the end of the day between religion and the demands of real life is anybody's guess. This makes me think of another caption but so as not to get disqalified i aint saying nada, lol.
Anyways, thats it. Man created the gods, and the worship of them by man threatens to be the source of man's downfall. One flimsy thought of how "go into the world and multiply" is threatening to cause overpopulation in some parts of the world is enough reason to understand my thought process. Thank you
ORIGIN OF HUMANITY
The image represents the origin of mankind from the point of view of the different indigenous ethnic groups. The great mother Earth gave birth to the human being. The blue veins represents the water (her blood) that gives life. Without it in 3 days we would die. The goddess opens her arms to give us the freedom to do as we please (free will). Even when our decisions have consequences, the hand holding the child's arm assures us that it will always help us in difficult times to get us up. She gives us the hammer as an instrument of construction and defense. But it lets us see beyond, that it is not the only tool that exists (upper right side). The most peculiar is the small square on the left, It represents to me, technology. Understanding that there is a presence that plays a part in our origin associated with technological and scientific development, perhaps alien presence?
Sir anyone plzz upvote me on my post.. It will be helpful for me plzzz frnds.. I ll upvote u too who ll upvote me
Don't do this, you will earn flag instead of upvote. You should give positive comments and participate in other's post.
Sorry, I really do not know
You don't need to tell me that in this contest post. Please edit your comment to empty. Doing this will earn you a flag.
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