Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Lovely! Lovely!

I think that beauty is all around us but you have to have a keen eye to REALLY see beauty due to that we ALL live in a modern world that is concidered an ugly world. Chris ofili used this knowledge to his advantage, he took the batist (I think that is what its called the host didn't pronounce it right for me to research) anyway, Chris Ofili used dung with teeth and dred locks to show beauty in his own way the way he SAW it.  He also had the "No Woman No Cry is a tribute to the London teenager Stephen Lawrence. The Metropolitan police investigation into his racially motivated murder was mishandled, and a subsequent inquiry described the police force as institutionally racist. In each of the tears shed by the woman in the painting is a collaged image of Stephen Lawrence’s face, while the words ‘R.I.P. Stephen Lawrence’ are just discernible beneath the layers of paint. Despite these specific references, the artist also intended the painting to be read in more general terms, as a universal portrayal of melancholy and grief" -Chris Ofili
he obviously thought that he could find beauty out of tragedy like a laugh now cry later face mask.

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