10 Provoking Illustrations That Reveal Hidden Messages

Sometime art finds its own meaning somewhere in between the lines of what was intended and what it turned out to be. Artist Stephan Schmitz works as an illustrator for famous magazines like Elle, The Economist, and Wall Street Journal, providing clever drawings for articles. However, his creations are interesting on their own, and sometimes even take a whole new meaning without an accompanying written piece.

Because they often go together with serious articles, Schmitz’s illustrations cleverly comment on popular issues. Scroll down to see the drawings that makes one think about the world we’re living in today.

Source: Stephan Schmitz | Instagram (h/t witty feed)

Two different worlds

This picture illustrates that there are two different worlds of these two different types of people and they have different perspectives of each other. The society has already judged both of the worlds and they have tagged them with good and bad but the truth is they are both different and the society cannot judge them by their appearances, they are humans after all and everyone has good and bad inside them.

In to the dark

When you think that you are safe within those arms that hold you but you never know how the devil attacks you from behind and you might be wondering that, it is someone you love, stabbing you.

What everyone sees

By showing the pigs the artist is trying to show the people who are creeps, the perverts who don’t realize that they are doing something wrong. Here the lady is being inspected by the perverts.

Everything has a different perspective

Everything has a different perspective and everything has a positive and a negative side. This picture shows that everyone can be on the top of the world but they don’t know what loopholes they gave that ruin their success.

This is what the concept seems like

When the religious people take the oath they mean this picture. Well, we would have never thought of it this way until this illustration. This has enlightened us about the concept.

What actually happens

This is the exact depiction of how animals are used for luxury sake and ignored their lives. People do inhumane things to animals and pretend to not know about it and ignore their existence.

Why plastic is attractive

Plastic surgery is attractive because the people make it famous and tag it beautiful whereas it is just fakeness and the perverts drool over it like it is everything that matters.

The show off

People often post pictures of them being on the internet with all the richness and they waste their money like dirt. They should realize that there are better things that need attention and they could be worked on.