Adding a word, Making it art
Several words are roughly written on a
picture.
This is the artwork by Gustavo Speridião
which I saw in the Kyoto city museum.
The picture itself was not taken by him but
came from a magazine, LIFE.
He made it as an art by just writing or
drawing on a published picture to add another meaning.
On the right picture, he drew the line between
two youngsters and wrote 'new and old'
and mentioned the class war.
By the line, two close friends are turned
to people from different classes, and the person on the left seems to be trying
to take another person from the old class to the new one.
Possibly it might be the opposite, it implies
that they cannot be friends because they are in different classes.
A cheerful scene is suddenly turned into a picture with serious theme.
The left picture looks like it was taken from a moving vehicle.
Originally, the forefront building is clear
and the rear ones are blurred but by adding just two words, the picture becomes
the one that expresses modern society. Everything is changing.
It seems the buildings are literally moving
and also seems like a fast-forwarding of history, like life flashing before your
eyes.
What is more thought-provoking is that the blurred
buildings are mostly high rises but the clear one looks traditional.
Does being still mean isolation or an immovable value?
Just by scribbling words, the artist can
totally change the inherent meaning of a picture.
Thanks to MauricioEiji's revision.
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