i love everything about the first painting in the Molotov Man reading...begining with the off centered image. his face is my favorite. its so full of anger, and his eyes are so real. you can almost understand why he is throwing the molotov cocktail adn you dont even know a backstory. the way she took a photograph and painted it gave a texture and i love that the background is greyed out too...so beautiful. the embrace photo is so moving. her work is so emotional, i love it. the whole copyright issue sucks because of how beautiful her work is...i get it though, maybe she should have gotten permission to recreate the image in a painting..i mean, what an awesome photo to begin with, guess i would want my work credited too...the argument this painting started is very interesting..copyrighting with a purpose almost. when the photographer wrote back she was saying how her purpose was completly different than what the painting was saying, which in a way makes the painting different from the original completly. art sends a message...its cool how the same image in different modes of art depict different messages yet just by looking at the mans eyes it is the same. love how the image has been put on everything now though... even religious stuff cause the guy is wearing a cross.
the other reading was kind of weird.. not as interesting to me as the first one but had some really cool pictures..the one of the man made up of people was very neat...love Andre Breton's quote, totally agree. putting objects out of the context we are familiar with helps me see or i guess re see their beauty all over again. you can see aspects of things you never saw before and find new meanings
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