Arturo is a Venezuelan artist that is know for his melding of collage and cartoons. Below are a few examples of his work.
Although the concept seems interesting, this first piece by Herrera makes no sense to me. All the pieces just seem to be everywhere with no central them of concept. I feel as though he just cut up a bunch of different pieces with no similar concept and glued them on top of each other. I can't even tell what many of the pieces are such as the big brown blog that is covering a good portion of Tweety.
I found this second piece by Herrera to not be as crazy and chaotic as the first. The cartoon cut out in this piece looks like Pinnochio and Giuseppe except that Giuseppe is placed on the piece with no face. I like that the artist stuck with the concept of putting the characters in something liquid instead of something that wouldn't really make sense. I also like that the characters are in a simple black and off white and the background is much more colorful.
I like this last piece by Herrera a lot more than the other two. Although I couldn't really tell you the theme of the picture. The pieces seem to go together much more nicer. The background of the outdoors and what looks like a pathway is nicely done and the objects that are glued on top of each other in the center give it that nice modern touch.
darling, you don't need to find any sense, Arturo's work is amazingly composed. They are visually beautiful in an abstract level. You're focusing too much in the literal content. It's not about Pinocchio, it's about visual beauty, perfect compositions and how all these "nonsensical collages/images that have nothing to do with each other converge to create this great images. These images about cartoons just happened to be there.
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