Futuristic War Artwork

In this artwork, it depicts what looks to be society in ruins and chaos as robotic, emotionless soldiers, accompanied by war robots, lay fire and waste to the city. There’s smoke coming out from the fires, and there is debris or remains from the buildings that were destroyed in front of the soldiers’ march.

This sort of future is frightening; it suggests that a war on a grander scale could happen in the distant future and would lead the world down to ruins under the hands of a tyrannical country or world power. Or maybe, it would be a robot war; all of the soldiers and weapons used here in this picture are all mechanical. Maybe robots have developed a sense of being and realized that they were being oppressed and decided to wipe out humanity? Either way, the picture shown is ominous; it essentially depicts the end of humanity aside from maybe a couple of survivors that survived the wrath of the world power who created these machines.

The artist’s message through this artwork is probably to alert us the dangers of technology. The society of today has a general positive connotation when thinking about technology. Technology eases daily life, can help save lives, and can even provide numerous forms of entertainment in the form of movies, video games, and television. At the same time, if used in the wrong hands, technology can be also be used to create bombs, guns, or in general, just weapons of mass destruction designed for the use of war. The artist’s artwork makes us realize that; the dark and bleak colors used strengthen the overall ominous atmosphere that the artwork presents, and the presence of fire and weaponry signifies the dangers and risk associated with technology. Essentially, the core message of the artwork is that technology can be used for destructive purposes, and is not limited only to helping out society. The artwork provokes the idea from the viewers that we should be aware of both the positive and negative implications of technology; what it appears to be does not necessarily mean it’s going to be used in that way.

The promotion of technology nowadays is done through bright colors, reinforcing the positive aspects of using technology. In contrast the artist here used dark colors, reinforcing the negative aspects of technology. One wouldn’t expect the product being advertised to be “evil” if the advertisement had bright colors and an atmosphere like that as well. This is a manipulation to get us to buy the product; we associate bright colors with the idea that it can’t hurt us. However, brightness also “blinds” people from the truth, where as darkness makes people face the truth. The artist here isn’t hiding the fact that future technology could be used for war; he’s bluntly stating it through the bleak situation the artwork presents.