Tuesday, December 13, 2005

The Critic As Artist:

--Anonymous, Iraq, 2003
Medium: Assault-on-Poster

In this passionate yet subtle subversion of Classic Propagandic Narcissism, the meta-artist has here subverted the very medium of the genre to achieve an effectually differentiated paradigm in opposition to the original work's intent. The overall result is reminiscent of the works of Francis Bacon.

Or perhaps there's a simpler interpretation...