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Vintage sausage

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The Wiener Waltz

This not-really-cartoon painting »Vintage sausage« by artist Tobias Wieland is calm and wursty.
Wursty, because Wieland is German, i.e. citizen of the land of sausages, "Wienerland" or short "Wieland" (ironically Tobias Wieland lives in Hamburg).

In »Vintage sausage«, Victorian lifestyle meets a modern international meat based mass product, William Holman Hunt meets haggis. Wieland connects the vast, quiet countryside of ye olde England with the Wall Street hot dog stands, swimming in the noisy traffic torrents of the city. »Vintage sausage« represents a vintage feeling of harmony in the age of mass production. But the ancient wurst is out-of-date; organic and soy sausages are roaring into the supermarkets of this world.

The frankfurters in this painting are peaceful; they do not have a clue what will happen to the world after their death. They do not know that Industrial Revolution will soon produce their most advanced offspring in the most cost-efficient way. Sometimes it might give you an eerie feeling to see someone on an old painting and you know exactly that he/she/it has died or has been eaten a long time ago. *snuff*

Wieland needed a credit for his art studies, and he didn't want to draw nude portraits again, so he chose to attend a freestyle class. He didn't know what to draw, so he drew Mose on the mountain – as a sausage. He liked it, so he painted this acryl family portrait. He needs 2 to 5 days to finish one of his wursty masterpieces.
Wieland is currently working on a book, an adventure story settled in the age of Industrial Revolution, told with his »Vintage sausage« paintings.

toonpool.com (03/09)