Illustration and design for Sladica, a longtime soul-funk-rnb-hiphop-reggae party. Because the party is set one day before New Year's eve, my inspiration were old flemish Baroque paintings of drunken festivities. I illustrated everything by hand - SLADICA DJ'S PARTY caption too.
Jan Steen, ‘As the old sing, so pipe the young’, c. 1668 - 1670
Here, Steen has depicted the proverb ‘As the old sing, so pipe the young’, meaning that a bad example leads to bad conduct. The woman on the left with the open cleavage is having her glass topped up. On the right, the laughing father is teaching one of his children to smoke a pipe. This is Steen himself. Besides his gift for telling humorous stories, Steen was also a skilled painter who could suggest a variety of materials, such as the earthenware jug on the floor, the lilac skirt and the sparkling wine. An elderly woman holds a sheet of paper containing the words to a popular proverb, referenced in the painting’s title. Thematic symbols punctuate the composition: the bagpiper suggests the “copycat piping” mentioned in the proverb (the instrument connoted indolence and debauchery), the foot warmer and oysters have erotic associations, and the parrot implies mimicry.
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