Today's world still has a lot of dark sides that are covered up. However, people don't dare speak up and discuss the bad things happening in their lives because they're afraid of being criticized for going against the world. Thankfully, some artists out there have bravely used art to expose society's harsh reality in the hope of changing people's awareness and then acting with the right mindset.
Apart from pleasing our eyes, drawings also transfer ideas and provoke thought on social issues. Sometimes, we can see the whole story and realize messages hidden in one picture. Are you in doubt? Let us introduce you to Austrian artist Gerhard Haderer, who has been producing satirical illustrations for adults for decades and highlights the problems of modern society only with his one-panel drawings.
There's no denying that social issues are always a difficult and sensitive topic for most artists to talk about—a controversial subject. Indeed, artist Gerhard Haderer had to face the court because of his brutally honest book "The Life of Jesus". The book received violent reactions from the Catholic Church and especially, Greece saw it as an insult to religion which gave Gerhard a six-month suspended sentence in absentia. However, this verdict was corrected on appeal, and our artist was acquitted a few months later.
As he shared, the illustrator developed his realistic style when he worked as a graphic designer for advertising agencies. After he got cancer in 1985, he quit his job and worked as a freelance caricaturist and satirical illustrator, concentrating mainly on social matters.
We've summed up over 30 illustrations by Gerhard Haderer in the section below. Are you ready to face the truths that may relate to you? Come on, guys, they're created to make your life better. So, let's check them out, and let us know what you think in the comments!
Apart from pleasing our eyes, drawings also transfer ideas and provoke thought on social issues. Sometimes, we can see the whole story and realize messages hidden in one picture. Are you in doubt? Let us introduce you to Austrian artist Gerhard Haderer, who has been producing satirical illustrations for adults for decades and highlights the problems of modern society only with his one-panel drawings.
There's no denying that social issues are always a difficult and sensitive topic for most artists to talk about—a controversial subject. Indeed, artist Gerhard Haderer had to face the court because of his brutally honest book "The Life of Jesus". The book received violent reactions from the Catholic Church and especially, Greece saw it as an insult to religion which gave Gerhard a six-month suspended sentence in absentia. However, this verdict was corrected on appeal, and our artist was acquitted a few months later.
As he shared, the illustrator developed his realistic style when he worked as a graphic designer for advertising agencies. After he got cancer in 1985, he quit his job and worked as a freelance caricaturist and satirical illustrator, concentrating mainly on social matters.
We've summed up over 30 illustrations by Gerhard Haderer in the section below. Are you ready to face the truths that may relate to you? Come on, guys, they're created to make your life better. So, let's check them out, and let us know what you think in the comments!
#1 Jawsome!
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#2 Holidays...so many people leave at the same time...so they get stuck on the road.., and they spend half of their vac waiting in the car...sad...reality
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#3 This would be even better with teachers
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#4 No!!! How will you get the ball back now!
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#5 As the crisis of 29
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#6 Cannot unsee!
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#7 I think its about politicians ignoring all the aspects of truth
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#8 Enough money you can do anything
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#9 Context, variation on Albrecht Dürer's Praying Hands
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#10 If only
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#11 You are what you eat
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#12 Our current administration
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#13 Oh god I'm reading this on the toilet at work
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#14 Migrant crisis in Europe?
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#15 Education combats terrorism!
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#16 She can't even sunbathe in the privacy of her own backyard
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#17 He can't escape his reality, even in his daydreams...
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#18 Yeah, material things don't make you happy
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#19 Stand around watching, unaware it is too late!
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#20 Our governments today
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#21 Pretty much sums up the stank in the White House in 2018
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#22 Tinder date while you go on tinder
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#23 That's where enormous parts of humanity are going right now
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#24 Corporate Greed!
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#25 Buy local. Shop small
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#26 Well, at least it looks like they're all getting along
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#27 The new norm and the rebel
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#28 Children missing childhood
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#29 This is the best portrait of the church... EVER!
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#30 I'll bet the smile gets deducted from their paycheck
Source: Gerhard Haderer
#31 This happens so much at live concerts
Source: Gerhard Haderer