5 artistic references in Squid Game on Netflix that you may not have spotted

" One two Three Sun !»».It is this type of innocent appearance games that the characters of Squid Game on Netflix must play, to earn a mirobal kitty without losing their lives.Of course, in the South Korean series, the events are a little more complicated than the children's games of which they are inspired.Result: blood flows with waves, as the mystery on the organizers of the game thickens.

Hemoglobin and suspense are not the only striking elements of this series with licked aesthetics.The work also multiplies cultural references.These are the winks that we spotted.

To detail them, we have no choice but to partly spoiler certain episodes of squid game.In order not to spoil your surprise, we have classified the spoils in growing order and specified above each paragraph the degree of "disclosure" that it involves.

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1. Relativité d’Escher + The Ricardo Bofill Muralla Roja, dans toute la série Squid Games

"Relativity" is a lithography produced by the Dutch artist, M.VS.Sneak.In this work, the laws of gravity do not apply.The protagonists present are impersonal, because their face is not represented and they all have the same build.

LeVSri de Munch

Here, the link with Squid Game is easy to do.In order to access the playgrounds, players must go through these stairs, where it is impossible for us to locate them clearly.Also, the guards all having the same combination, with only a different form on their mask (why, besides?) Are very difficult to differentiate, just like the characters of the work of.

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The decor of these stairs also recalls the Muralla Roja of Ricardo Bofill, a postmodern apartments complex located in Spain at the top of a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.

Bofill uses color as something "functional", according to his reported remarks that can be read on the Carnets-Traverse site.Red "accentuates the contrast to the landscape".Blue, indigo and purple produce "an optical fusion effect" with the sky and the sea.

The Ricardo Bofill Muralla Roja

In the Squid Game sets, the colors that approach that of Bofill indeed provide a greater illusion of space, making it difficult to follow the characters during the stairs on the stairs.The geometric and thick design recalls Bofill's architecture as much as children's furniture.

In addition, many films have been shot there, for example The Hunger Games by Gary Ross… It would therefore not be surprising that this place was reassembled to the ears of Hwang Dong-Hyeok, the creator of the series.

2. LeVSri de Munch, dans l’épisode 1

LeVSri est une œuvre expressionniste de l’artiste norvégien Edvard Munch.It symbolizes the modern man carried away by an existential anxiety attack, inspired by a crisis that the artist tells in his newspaper:

"I was walking on a path with two friends - the sun was sleeping - suddenly the sky became red blood.I stopped, tired, and leaned on a fence-there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord-my friends continued, and I stayed there, trembling withanxiety - I felt an infinite cry that passed through the universe and that tore nature.»»

LeVSri de Munch

This description corresponds very well to this scene from episode 1, where this participant takes a snap in the face and realizes that the elimination of a player announces his death.There follows a movement of panic (then, a massacre), which can be akin to the anxiety crisis represented by Munch's painting.

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In addition, in the anxiety crisis having given birth to this painting, Munch alludes to the blood and the bottom, which can be found in this round of squid game by death and shots.

3.The surrealist ball of Rothschild, in episode 7 of Squid Games

On December 12, 1972, in the castle of Ferrières, the servants dressed in cats dismembered themselves to welcome and serve the hosts of Marie-Hélène de Rothschild, also disguised in a surprising way.Without quoting them all, there was a large part of the rich gratin of the Paris of the time, like Audrey Hepburn, Brigitte Bardot, Serge Gainsbourg, Yves Saint Laurent or Dali.

The surrealist ball of Rothschild

Here is the surrealist ball of M.H.Rothschild, who inspired the film Eyes Wide Shut.VSomme vous pouvez le voir, l’hôte (à droite) était habillée de bleu, avec un long masque en forme de tête de cerf qui pleure des larmes de diamants.

Est-ce que ce bal et cette tenue auraient inspiré la création des masques d’animaux des VIP ?VSar dans la série aussi, nous comprenons assez vite que les VIP font partie de la classe supérieure.They are rich and need to have fun in a rather surprising setting, like the guests of the Rothschild ball.In addition, while they observe the game of the bridge, they are also in a surreal decor, representing a jungle, with masked servers and women serving as furniture, recalling the atmosphere of the surreal ball.

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4. Dinner party de JudyVShicago, dans l’épisode 8

The Dinner Party est considérée comme la première œuvre féministe « épique»».It is presented under a triangular installation made up of 39 erect dining tables.

Each table is attributed to mythological characters and historical personalities of various eras and various fields, all women.Their name is embroidered with each place and Judy has given them images or symbols that represent them, such as a towel, kitchen utensils, glass or cup and a plate.VSertains accessoires sont en forme de papillon ou de fleur, symboles vulvaires.

Dinner Party de JudyVShicago

JudyVShicago a réalisé cette installation dans le but de « mettre fin au cycle continuel d’omissions par lequel les femmes sont absentes des archives de l’Histoire»».It is therefore funny to find this same triangular table in this scene in episode 8 of the series.Indeed, player 067 sits with players 456 and 218, but she is in a position of weakness in front of them.While she discreetly empties her blood, the two men taste their meal as well as the wine offered by the organizers.

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067 will be one of those women absent from the archives of history, replaced by men who will have had an advantage over her.In addition, as we can see in the reference to the surrealist ball, women are considered to be objects, while men take up all the place.Very often in the game, men complain of not wanting women in their team, because they would be weaker than them and would therefore risk losing them, thus reducing the female gender to fragile little things unable to fight.

5. LaVSréation d’Adam par Michel-Ange, dans l’épisode 9

LaVSréation d’Adam représente la naissance de l’Adam biblique, selon le passage correspondant dans le Livre de la Genèse : « Dieu créa l’homme à son image»».

LaVSréation d'Adam par Michel-Ange

The right arm of God carries life and heads for Adam, extended in a mirror pose of God, recalling that man is created in the image of God.God's imminent contact with Adam will breathe life into him and give life to all of humanity.VS’est donc la naissance de la race humaine.

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In this scene of the ninth episode of Squid Game, one can imagine that 456 is like God.He reaches his hand around 218, offering him a chance to live.His hand has in a way this spark of life illustrated in the fresco of Michelangelo.By shaking his hand, 218 may have been endowed with the same altruism as 456 and would therefore be René in the form of a new man.But 218 chooses to kill himself, refusing the Renaissance proposed by his opponent.

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