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The Visual World of Tex Avery

If Disney established the rules of realism, it was Tex Avery who introduced absurdities in new contexts, intensified by the gags highlighted by sound. Metamorphoses, hyperboles, fast pace - these were the features that distinguished him from his predecessors. Like Bob Clampett, Avery was a pioneer of gaggery, and no one expanded the limits of physical laws more than him. His dedication to perfection cemented his status as one of the most outstanding and brilliant directors in the animation industry. Always looking for improvements, he created his own universe, accustomizing the audience to the unexpected. Joe Adamson wrote that “Chuck Jones’ Coyote can fall five miles from a precipice and still be alive when he gets to the bottom. Tex Avery’s Wolf could probably endure such a fall, but he is more likely to develop brakes on the way down” (27). His style was not completely illogical, but it was not real either ; he approached surrealism and, as Adamson and Ajanović state, he “doesn’t ask you to believe it, you can’t help but believe it” (Adamson 40). Avery gambled when he saved from oblivion the studios’ old characters, but it paid off. By redesigning Porky Pig, creating Daffy Duck and giving Bugs Bunny his definitive personality he made them trademarks of the Warner Brothers animation studio, hence immortal. While his contribution to the field of animation was different than Walt Disney’s, it is easy to see how impoverished the world of animation would have been without the outstanding and inexhaustible work of Tex Avery.

absurdism, gag, realism, animation, hyperbole

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