Wow. What the hell is this was the first question I asked myself when I came across this work of art by an artist named Fernando Garrido. Today in class we composed two creative writing pieces called an exquisite corpse where you write a sentence based on the previous sentence only. It was a great exercise and we made some really great pieces. Exquisite corpse was I guess initially started with painting and drawings. I don't believe that this piece of art was intended to be such a painting but it looks as if it could be. I have no idea what this piece of art is supposed to mean or what kind of message that the artist was trying to portray but when I look at it I get a feeling of total chaos. To me it represents both life and death, creation and damnation, and everything in between. It almost leaves me speechless.
On a different note, I did some actually research and browsed through some actual art pieces that were created through the method of exquisite corpse and here are two pieces I came across that were totally different.
The first one seems to be just an average, like cartoon picture but you can see the different areas where they kept adding to the picture. The second one however, although the artists i'm sure were not meaning to do this, tells a story.
This is the story I came up with when I saw this picture:
Two star struck lovers share in a sentimental kiss. One that is full of passion and lust, but is the lust really towards each other. The woman (we will call her Thelma) looks into the eyes of her lover (we will call him Greg) and realizes that his eyes, which were once full of fire and flame have burnt out and are now a dull, without even a single amber glowing. She still feels passion in the kiss, but realizes that it is for someone else. In anger she grabs a gun and contemplates killing him right there on the spot and then BAM she shoots him. A mess of mass chaos occurs and neither he or she really knows what is going on. All of a sudden she looks down and he is laying on the floor dead with the weight of everything that has just happened lays in that single moment of vulnerability.
I don't know. Call me crazy for seeing that in this particular work of art but it is what it is.
3 comments:
The gun part of this picture rocks my world. Also, I looked at this picture for a few minutes before I realized that the two characters are sitting on some dude; he must be pissed. Oh yea, something completely off subject. Are you interested in playing soccer for SUNY Canton? I told Coach that you were in my English class and she told me to have you cal her because we totally want you on the team.
this picture is kinda cool in a way how you can just haveing people add things to make art kinda like our stories we made i didnt think they would turn out like they did.
i like this picture because it's full of a lot of things to look at!
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