"Modern Pains illustrated"

The project was created by Matteo Quartucci.

-- My second project on Behance: “Modern Pains”
(for the first project click here > Global Issues Illustrated)

Which inner pain are you feeling? Are you aware of your pain?


The nationality of the artists that have participated to the project are: Russia, Italy, Turkey, Denmark, Austria and England.
Each artist has contributed to the creation of this project/team by using his own capacities for to inform and  awaken the consciences through art.
Every illustration of these artists represent a particular pain that the modern man feels in our digital era.

NB: for the profiles of the artists you can click on the name!!!  :)  Thanks



Author name: Matteo Quartucci

Work name: “Apathy”

Technique: mixed pencil on paper with digital coloration

Work description: We live in an age where the system has erased the motivation to discover, to live, to create.
The black sun symbolizes the evil that crushes the human being, bringing him to pain. but this pain not is shared for guilt of the apathy and the human being escape from pain.




Author name: Barbara Monacelli 

Work name: “Solitude”

Technique: mixed media on paper, cm 38x50

Work description: There are two kinds of solitude:loneliness deliberate and desperate loneliness. 
The black house is the place of all the solitudes.






Author name: Michela Fiorenza 

Work name: “Anorexia”

Technique:  biro / ballpoint pen

Work description: It’s a drawing, throw down on paper directly to pen, without help of the pencil. In my case is the technique to take out the essential without many artifices: the naked feeling.
The title and description they’re also essential for to leave the space at the language of the image. The quote says it all: “Light griefs are loquacious, but the great are dumb.” (Seneca)




click > BARIS YAVUZ

Author name: Barış Yavuz

Work name: “Insulation”

 Technique:  Digital Art

Work description:  (free interpretation)




click > KATE 

Author name: Kate Steiner

Work name: "Love Hurts"

Technique: Pencil, graphite powder on paper 

Work description: love is not romance, it is doubt, fear, rejection and insecurity ... 
but we shouldn't fear it, for it will help us to heal all of this'





Author name: Ottavia Coteni

Work name: “The Anomy”

Technique: Digital Painting

Work description: I wanted represent the anomy on your greek meaning or rather like “absence of name”, of identity, or social discrepancy. The individual is inconscience like a sheet of paper, his substantial pain in not failing to find a place in the dark, between the darkness in which he lives.
Only solution for not feeling alone is give up the own light.




click > OLIVIA WEISS

Author name: Olivia Weiss

Work name: “Fear”

Technique: Drawing on paper and digital drawing

Work description: (free interpretation)





Author name: John Hawkins

Work name: “Indifference”

Technique:  Digital Art/Photography

Work description: Indifference to Nature and our fellow Human beings...
unseeing...unfeeling...
something has died inside.





Author name: Natasha Smykova

Work name: “Missed Potential”

 Technique:  paper, gouache, ink, markers

Work description: Each person is born with a potential.
 But not all have rush to open it. We all have our talents and abilities for something in this life.
We get the older, the baggage problems increases and the potential begins to decline. 
Since we are not trying to open and use.  By the end of the life we ​​have a heavy suitcase of liabilities and unrealized soul.
The main thing in life is that baggage inside of you becomes your desire to go further.


I thank the artists that have give their time and talent for this project!!!
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"Modern Pains illustrated"
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"Modern Pains illustrated"

Any artists of each part of the world tell with the illustrations the modern pains of this digital era.

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