Metro Man and rubber duck to the rescue is a collage that a child can laugh at and enjoy or an adult can ponder and reflect upon. Art especially, when portraying an important, difficult and terrifying idea, must be approachable and engage even a child. (Think, Picasso's Guernica). A totally realistic painting of Guernica would be too terrifying to look upon by even adult; and thus the opportunity to see and ponder the psychological and physical reality of the objective art would be lost to both child and adult.  

 

Who or what is to be saved? A bird is trapped in a broken technological cage. Rubber duck sits upon colorful waste. Metro Man is underneath a falling painted gord. And a primative female face (perhaps mother earth) looks back at the viewer impassively. Are rubber duck or Metro Man really able to save any who or what?

 

Art is not about skilled technique. Ai Weiwei and Salvador Dali's techniques are flawless, whereas Robert Rachenberg and Antonio Berni's techniques are cruder. Yet they each make art of the highest aesthetic value.

 

Milton Glaser explains well,  "What is art, and what is not?"

 

TNN 3/1/2016