r/fuckalegriaart

this ad feels vaguely fatfobic or smth however i am too tired to articulate. all i know is that it’s fucking ugly.

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Hello. I'm curious as to what you all think about Invisible Creature. They're an illustration company that comes out of Seattle. When I came across this sub I thought the Alegria style and the Invisible Creature artwork had some overlap, but internally I feel totally disconnected from the former. What do you guys think? Is the artwork too similar in style or are you more willing to call it genuinely tasteful?

I love to break my index finger on my phone while missing a thumb nail 🤩

is he running away from the grid? Or hes tryin to running away from white area to pale orange grid area?

Or is he running backwards?

Cis people encouraged to clown on this in the comments. It’s not transphobic this book is just hot garbage.

it was optional to receive it i decided to go out because I thought it was gonna look good but now i have to burn it

There's a few shows on cable TV with this God forsaken artstyle now. My kid immediately loses interest. EDIT: spell check failed me.

Personally, I hate Corporate Memphis, or Alegria, because it feels so smug, so self-righteous & so fake, artificial & insincere. It feels like a middle finger. A middle finger from a scummy dirt bag corporation. It just screams: "Own nothing & you'll be happy". It feels like a cheap mask or a veil from a evil, evil corporation. " Oh look at us! We're sooo inclusive & caring! It doesn't matter that we're making the world worse by raising rent, cutting wages, adding onto global warming or laying off workers. It doesn't matter that we're making life unlivable, raising the price of health insurance, replacing human labor with AI. Look at the art we use in our ads! We're so inclusive!" That's how it reads to me.

Like, admittedly, Alegria, doesn't look all that bad. Really! Personally it looks too clean & corporate for my tastes. But ignore that, & you have a genuinely colorful & kinda nice aesthetic.

But how come Alegria feels this way, compared to other, somewhat similar looking, & sometimes insincere aesthetics?

Is it just that Alegria looks bad? Compare it to the artwork of Fatinha Ramos. They both have similar appearances. Large, geometric, & over exaggerated bodies, & a inclusive look. But, what Alegria lacks that the art of Fatinha Ramos possesses, is depth, is soul. Her artwork has shading, has depth, has darker shades & greater sense of humanity in her work. Especially in the book she illustrated, Love around the World.

This also applies to art movements like the Avant-garde art movement or the Bauhaus art movement of the 1920s, mid-century modern & the minimalism of the 1960s. There's a depth or a soul to them which seperates them from Alegria, despite them all having similar aesthetic principles. There's freedom in Bauhaus & Futurism.

But if it's because Alegria feels soulless & insincere. Then how come aesthetics like Global Village Coffeehouse or Frutiger Aero, feel so appealing, so nostalgic, so warm & fuzzy, & soulful. Because as pretty as these aesthetics are, don't get me wrong, they really are nice. It's admittedly just as inauthentic & insincere as Alegria. It's a mask which corporations use to appear nicer. But Frutiger Aero & Global Village Coffeehouse, do look good. They look soulful. You get a positive & warm vibe from them.

Is it just nostalgia or anemoia speaking? Old is gold? Is it just that we had a better perception of big corporations in 2000 than we do today? That we felt that Apple & Microsoft were actually making the world better? That Starbucks & Panera were here to give us comfort?

So those are my ideas for now. Please tell me what you guys think & have a great day & week!