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MY COPY

The artist I chose is Basquiat. The painting I am going steal is the painting Kings of Egypt 3. I love the aesthetics of this painting. When I Googled the artist I found out that his work has a lot of political statements and messages. That became the reason that I want to work with his work.

The exact thing I want to steal from this painting is Basquiat his voice . This may sound weird because there is no sound involved with the painting. But this painting is a depiction of his view of the world. Everything he painted he did with a reason, a story.

The first step of the theft is isolating the words of the message. I did this digitally, carefully following the movements he made creating his message. I used the colors he used, for they are probably a big part of the message. I placed these words on paper, printed them and arranged them so they would be positioned like they are positioned in the painting. This is my copy.

The process of making the copy made me think about the way I was working. It felt like I was dissecting the painting, like you would a body in a morgue. I wanted to know what his symbols, his words actually meant. If they were random or if they had a deeper meaning. I started to research the words, looking explanations and maybe I could form actual sentences with his work. It made me look differently at the artwork than how I looked at it the first time. Instead of the painting being a whole, all the individual part had meaning of their own. If I did not work like this, I would have never found a deeper meaning within this piece.

For my transformation I decided to make a connection to my major. I want to share this insight with my future student. When you are in grade-school and you are taught biology, you theoretically dissect a body. You open it up and learn about the organs, the bones, the nerve-system, the brain. When you have learned about all this separate parts, you understand the body as a whole. We do not teach art like this. Mostly we only look at he big picture, the finished artwork. We talk about an artists process in general, but do not often try to learn about the process by dissecting the painting itself. So as transformation I decided to create a learning method, that children can use in school, to learn how to dissect a painting. In this case, the painting of Basquiat.