Dan Kelly - Museum paper

            In my opinion, it is art because Ed Paschke is an Imagist who creates art with inspiration from pop culture. He is fascinated by the visual culture of electronic media, TV, and video, and he incorporates bright, neon colors that are made to look somewhat like a virtual image. Also, this piece is a painting, and personally, I feel that all painting should be considered art.

            I am interested in this piece because I love how bright and somewhat confusing the image is. I knew I wanted to write about this piece the second I saw it. You can tell that it is a painting of two men, however they are very distorted and look inhuman, but with human features. I also love how in each shape or in the background the colors fade from light to dark. Lastly, I love how huge the painting itself is. It takes up so much room on the wall, and even though it is not too detailed, the details stand out since it is so large.

            The location of this piece in the museum is perfect. It is in a giant, bright-lit room with a few other pieces surrounding it that also have bright colors, geometric lines, and geometric shapes. However, even though the other pieces are so bright, it does not distract the viewer from this piece at all. If anything this piece is the distraction from the others because of how bright the colors are.

            This piece portrays the faces of two men, with one wearing a tie. It is made up of white, both dark and bright greens, dark and bright blues, bight yellows, and bright orange. The painting looks as if it if being portrayed through a TV or a computer screen that looks glitchy or somewhat distorted. Their eyes are different sizes, their hair fades into the background, and the different colors go in horizontal lines across the image. The background is dark blues and greens, with the two men made up of lighter blues and greens and bright yellows and oranges. The men’s faces take up most of the painting, with their shoulders also showing. This piece is an attempt to show the luminous glow and kinetic striations of color from TV or computer screens. The virtual people in the image are blurred with acidic tones, obscuring their features immensely. However, even though the men are so distorted and don’t look like real people, it is still easy to tell that it is a image of two men.