Jacek Yerka

October 27, 2003 6:31 PM

Can it be? Has MetaFilter's front page never visited YERKALAND?* Polish artist Jacek Yerka: Bosch-Breughel-Dali-esque or just trippy fun?
*(Potentially slow on dial-up.)
posted by Shane (14 comments total)

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posted by signal at 6:36 PM on October 27, 2003

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Damn, that was fast! Well, the other links are live (so far). It's a pity, though, 'cuz Yerkaland is very Gilliam-esque fun in layout and animation.

Damn. Five minutes?
posted by Shane at 6:38 PM on October 27, 2003

Don't know about y'all, but that "trippy fun" includes ads for nekkid girls. Just so y'all know.

Very very cool art, though. Thanks.
posted by whatnotever at 6:44 PM on October 27, 2003

Aw, man, I MeFied his site! I feel awful...
posted by Shane at 6:44 PM on October 27, 2003

they are pretty good...thanks (of course, now i'm imagining a themepark called Yerkaland)
posted by amberglow at 6:49 PM on October 27, 2003

Mother of Little Boy: "Shane, your a cold linking slinger...."
(turns face, hand across brow)
posted by clavdivs at 6:49 PM on October 27, 2003

:)
posted by clavdivs at 6:50 PM on October 27, 2003

once the site is back up and running here's a link to it that should help ease the traffic overload:

freecache.org/http://yerka.webpark.pl/start.htm

not that it helps much but here also is the google cache of jacek's start page...
posted by t r a c y at 7:14 PM on October 27, 2003

[this is good]

Bosch-Breughel-Dali-esque or just trippy fun?

Definitely trippy fun. Yes, there nods to Hieronymus Bosch and Breughel. Didn't see much connection with Dali. I think Yerka's major debt is to Magritte, though.

and if you have to link to nekkid girl sites, you could do a lot worse than Domai.com
posted by Slithy_Tove at 8:04 PM on October 27, 2003

Wonderful and definitely trippy. Maybe he paints in a similar style as Breughel, but not the content. Definitely influenced by his landscape of fields and castles and deep pools. Damn their cool looking.

Initially it reminded me a bit of Roger Dean and his mindscapes on old Yes albums.
posted by alicesshoe at 9:40 PM on October 27, 2003

Initially it reminded me a bit of Roger Dean and his mindscapes on old Yes albums.

Here's a thread on Roger Dean, who has recently turned to architecture.
posted by homunculus at 10:00 PM on October 27, 2003

(funny you should mention that about Dean, I always thought of Frank Gehry's famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as a sort of Yes album cover come to life.)

This is good, by the way. Although I get a bit of a sense of deja vu looking at some of this stuff. Has Yerka perhaps done some famous illustrations or something?
posted by arto at 10:40 PM on October 27, 2003

...I always thought of Frank Gehry's famous Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao as a sort of Yes album cover come to life...

That's perfect, because it brings us to Antonio Gaudi. This Gaudi sketch of Sagrada Familia looks like Yerka drew it. And Gaudi is certainly trippy in a similar vein...

...trippy...
Yeah, I like the way even a combination of mundane elements (huts/antennas/car) becomes trippy and feel a little profound...

"Shane, your a cold linking slinger...."
clavdivs fires off a good shot, heh!

here's a link to it that should help ease the traffic overload...
Thanks, t r a c y !
*imagines artist saying 'What the hell happened to my site' in Polish*
Przepraszam, Jacek Yerka! Dziekuje!
posted by Shane at 6:10 AM on October 28, 2003

This is wonderful - I managed to get through to yerkaland, though, sadly, the thumbnails from the bottom menu in the gallery didn't click through to larger images for me.

This is my introduction to Jacek Yerka, and I love his work. I wonder if it's disrespectful (to the man as a serious artist) to say that if he illustrated an adventure game I would be all over that in an instant...

Na Zdrowie, Shane!
posted by taz at 11:32 AM on October 28, 2003