PIGTURES
A Drawing of a Pig on a Wall The research undertaken by the streetart theoreticians and art psychologists of the Uruguayan Universidad de Montevideo revealed that one in five preschool children chooses instinctively this primitive porcine motif if left to express its artistic inclinations freely over a white wall. The team were trying to answer the notsoobvious question: “Is it a mere scrawling or is it an archetypal motif encoded in our collective subconscious ever since the time of primaeval hunters and their first cave paintings?” What is more – the majority of the subjects in the study had never seen the animal before as such. The present work does not seek to refute or support the Uruguayan theory of “instinctive porcine graffiti”. It merely attempts to point out an error in its methodology: what the Uruguayan team presented is a comparison of the incomparable. The pintaporcos, (which could be rendered into English as “pigturers”) vary in their motives, social and cultural background. A different pigture will be drawn by a Chilean vegetarian, a perfectionist Belgian streetarter, a Panamanian pork butcher, or a Czech antiislamic activist. And that is perhaps this ambiguous symbolism that makes the pig by far the most often portrayed animal on housewall all over the world.
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Pigtures Published in: Prague, Czech Republic in 2013 Number of copies: 30 This copy is number: Thanks to our contributors: KNP, JP, JL, JS, LS, PH1, PH2, EW, PK, LA, SKH, AK, Ĺ S, KP, KD Photographs with black and white captions were first published in the previous issue of Pigtures in 2010. For more information please visit: www.pigtures.org or facebook.com/pigtures Good hunting luck in 2014!