Monday, May 9, 2011

RFWoAiMSP: Vol. I

I’d like to introduce a new reoccurring segment called “Recreating Famous Works of Art in MS Paint”

For the first installment, I will be replicating Grant Wood’s famous period-piece, American Gothic (1930).







Note the stern face of the male, juxtaposed with the confused and far-off gaze of the female (perhaps she is a Communist- we don't know). The omission of the barn is symbolic because barns are used for storing things, which implies ownership, whereas the persons here are without possessions (other than a pitchfork) probably because their Communist leaders took them all. Also of note is the lack of windows; only one is present. Perhaps this is representative of the farmer's lack of introversion- that we can only see in so much. Lastly, the shading implies two suns, as can be found on the desert planet Tatooine.

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