Carta Galaxia – Art Spotlight #3 – “Forbidden”

Carta Galaxia – Art Spotlight #3 – “Forbidden”

Carta Galaxia – Art Spotlight #3 – “Forbidden”

Bit of a hiatus, dealing with family stuff and general work overload. But we’re back with another awesome Claudia Cangini piece, along with the Art Brief.

3 – Forbidden

This is a remix/homage of the classic Forbidden Planet poster. Replace the robot with a woman in a bulky power armor suit whose helmet looks like the robot’s dome. She should look like the fainting woman in the cover. Replace the fainting woman with a thin (gender netural) robot. Background/clouds should remain roughly the same. No need for the poster text.

8 thoughts on “Carta Galaxia – Art Spotlight #3 – “Forbidden””

  1. If those were your instructions, I’d say that she nailed it. Nice piece. That iconic pice from Forbidden Planet is actually an homage to pieta, depictions of Jesus’ dead body in Mary’s arms.

  2. Jacob Ross Yeah that was the art brief I sent to Claudia, and she knocked it out of the park.

    As to the Pieta reference, I’d argue it was more closely related to the “damsel-kidnapping” pose of Creature From the Black Lagoon et al*. Mostly because of the lack of kneeling or embrace which is rather primary to La Pieta in most of its iterations.

    *Creature From the Black Lagoon itself is a deeply problematic ‘re-branding’ of the “black man kidnaps fainting white woman” movies that preceded it. Lindsay Ellis has a bonkers-good breakdown of that whole era of cinematography, and how recent media has tried to subvert or de-ugly the trope (like The Shape of Water).

    Here’s the Lindsay Ellis video, if you’re curious: youtube.com – My Monster Boyfriend

  3. oh, interesting. you know, implications aside, that was a fantastic monster design. It was actually made by a woman, but a dude took credit for decades.

    And yeah, I don’t know how I didn’t see it before. It also Harkens back to that old propaganda poster who will stop this monster? You know the one with the gorilla holding the woman?

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