Monday, September 26, 2011

New Yorker, "Paint by Pixels" Harry Bliss- April 30, 2007





1. Many different repeating colors.
2. Two people are both looking at a camera with a picture of the artwork.
3. They seem to be tourists in an art museum.
4. No faces.
5. The picture in the camera seems to look different from the big whole artwork.

The name of the cover is "Paint Pixels", in this cover you see splashes of paint all over with no specific meaning to it. You can also see two people standing there, but you don't know why they are exactly in this museum. In my cover there are two people who seem to be tourist standing in a museum taking pictures of artwork that they see. In the photo we can see people, but they have no faces so we do not know if they like the artwork or not. The piece of art has many colors splashed around messily and randomly. Just as there are no definite faces in the cover, there is no definite picture in the artwork. All the covers splashed around can represent different types of emotions of people. The artwork has a definite beginning on the bottom, but no definite ending on the sides or the top of it. In the right corner in the middle of the picture, there seems to be cloud with lighting coming down from it.

This cover can represent how people don't always see things the same way as others do. To any regular person this piece of art would just be splashes of paint, but to the two people standing there, it can have numerous meanings to them. To me, this cover represents how things can be interpreted in many different ways and how we all see the world in different perspectives. The photo is filled with many different colors, but we notice every single color because no color overpowers the other in the picture, this can represent how we all have different ideas, but no ones idea is more superior to anyone elses, since we are all entitled to our own opinions. The smaller picture in the camera can represent how we can look at something and disregard it without seeing the whole picture that is staring right at us.
The major ideas of the picture are colors splashed around randomly, no definite meaning, different perspectives, no emotions, and not seeing the bigger picture in front of us.

1 comment:

  1. This is an interesting cover.... I think you've made a start but could go further with interpretation....

    I like how you say:
    The smaller picture in the camera can represent how we can look at something and disregard it without seeing the whole picture that is staring right at us.

    This seems to be about tourism--about the big picture vs little picture, as you point out.... also, could you go further into talking about the attitude toward tourists here... is it positive, negative? Why the huge painting? and what kind of painting is it, to begin with?


    Maybe you can do some research on Jackson Pollock and get more into the idea of the painting.....

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