Album 2023 INTERNATIONAL SALON OF PRESS CARTOONS AND SATIRICAL VISUAL ARTS 11TH EDITION

International Salon of Press Cartoons and Satirical Visual Arts
Children without smiles
In the face of the reality that is
imposed upon us, we observe how the
most defenseless part of the human
race, such as children in this case,
experiences violations from all sides.
Thus, the World of Caricature has
always chosen to advocate for the
most fundamental rights that children
have.
The Arts of Humor attempt to
highlight in our consciousness
something that should appear as a
priority when it comes to asserting our
commitment to others. In this matter,
no sane person can remain indifferent
to everything that directly concerns the
most essential aspects of human
beings, namely all the issues that
transcend children, who are the
guiding thread of our future survival.
Therefore, it is our responsibility to
consider everything that can happen
around them.
"Children without smiles"
becomes a clear manifesto of the idea
of survival for those children who are
forced to live with minimal resources
necessary for a dignified life. They
have to face these challenges every
day, all caused by the shadows of
suffering from Wars, Famine,
Exploitation, Child Labor, in short, all
these disasters are evoked because
they lead to a destroyed childhood that
often inevitably marginalizes them for
l i f e . T h i s s h o u l d a w a k e n o u r
consciousness, knowing that all of this
is happening around us today.
"Children without smiles"
shows us what it means for society as
a whole, which does not provide the
necessary means to address this
anomaly, leading to the fact that future
generations will not have enough
resources to live with dignity. Under the
umbrella of the human species, we are
obliged to seek understanding and
respect so that each generation of
children can survive with dignity,
enjoying resources appropriate to
their age and as human beings.
This connotation seeks to
challenge us with the atrocities that
this society treats children with, who,
under the very gaze of childhood, sow
doubt about how to mask reality,
posing questions about the behaviour
of this world that becomes difficult for
them to inhabit.
The satirical drawings created by
H u m o r i s t A r t i s t s g a t h e r t h e
perspective of those professionals
who, under their own conscience and
dignity, intend to draw attention to the
collective consciousness and the
numerous threats that currently affect
this planet in relation to what children
experience today. The cruelty of its
images places everything that is most
relevant in the foreground, to convey
the sense of contradictory sensations
and emotions accompanied by
reproaches against ourselves for not
living up to the task of not allowing this
st
to happen in the middle of the 21
century.
T h e Q u e v e d o d e l H u m o r
Institute, together with the University
of Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and the
Stefan Popa Popa'S Foundation
(Romania), are two institutions that
join forces and criteria, actively
intervening in common projects to
support and disseminate Humorous
Caricature. Their primary standard in
all this is the protection of children's
interests through a common program,
in which they are the most important
pillars of these collaboration
agreements.
ANTONIO CALDERÓN de JESÚS,
ART Critical Analyst
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