I highly recomend the whole book. It's full of stunning art and tells a compelling story of a kid, who moves to a different country (in Tan's case it was Australia), where everything is new, fascinating and deadly. It's also a story of an older local kid, who becomes an unwilling guide to the new kid, gets fed up with explaining everything and being a babysitter and has to find compassion to create a brotherly relationship with the new kid. It's truly some amazing storytelling done solely by means of oil painting.
Shaun Tan's art is impressively depressing. I hate looking at it, not because it is bad or ugly, but because it perfectly illustrates everything wrong with the world. Which takes skill, I guess.
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I highly recomend the whole book. It's full of stunning art and tells a compelling story of a kid, who moves to a different country (in Tan's case it was Australia), where everything is new, fascinating and deadly. It's also a story of an older local kid, who becomes an unwilling guide to the new kid, gets fed up with explaining everything and being a babysitter and has to find compassion to create a brotherly relationship with the new kid. It's truly some amazing storytelling done solely by means of oil painting.
Shaun Tan's art is impressively depressing. I hate looking at it, not because it is bad or ugly, but because it perfectly illustrates everything wrong with the world. Which takes skill, I guess.
How about his books? I find the endings rather hopeful and positive generaly.
Hehe funny bunny : )
Wow, so much nice stuff on this community!
I have no words for the art here, really amazing!