This be the picture

Seeing the similar expressions makes me wonder about how we turn into our parents, and think of Philip Larkin's Poem "This be the verse"

They F*** you up, your Mum and Dad.

They may not meant to but they do.

They fill you with the faults they had,

And add some extra, just for you.

 

Hence the title.

Comments ? ...If you can be bothered

"Ode to Andy Warhol"? An eye-catcher.

I wish it were prettier or more disturbing, I'd like to see it pushed farther. The colors used seem arbitrary- disaffection meets Miami Vice? Tell me why you used those.

Hi Max, Its the Warhol thing... Where it started was the site of of one of the photography mags, where someone asked "how do you do that ...", I read the answer and thought "I can do that more simply", so I did. But I couldn't get the right colours. So I did a google Image search for Warhol Marilyn and picked up the colours from that. So I built the picture or me like that. The original of this is one I think of as "Self portrait with pills. It was taken at a bad time for me, and you can just see the medication that seems to be keeping things OK. For me it contains both great darkness and hope. But the thing is ME ? In the style of Marilyn Monroe ?? I famously did a rendition of Happy Birthday imitating her once, but that's as far as it goes. So I went looking for a suitable picture of my daughter. One that we took on Holiday a few weeks ago looked promising so off I went. She strikes a pose if you point the camera at her, and I'd said "I'm not going to take your picture like that so she let out a huge sigh and did that". So the easiest way to put the colour in to that one was to pick it up from the one of me. when I re-opened it I was struck by how similar the poses were. My father had phoned while I was working on the picture, and I was thinking about the characteristics I had inheritted from him, and what would be passed on. Would my daughter have to face the same things I have ? Hence the quote from Larkin. (You can find the whole thing through google). Now I know how to do this (and it's quite a quick process) I'll probably shoot some pics with this treatment in mind. I've created some variations using the Hue-map feature in Paintshop Pro, but I'll try other colours too.

 

I trust you understand the purpose behind my rating. It's unfortunate the phrase "very bad" is associated with the one rating. It should say "not at all" which would be the case here.

 

Anyway good job - you've captured the technique.

I'm assuming you mean becasue I've set to create something like Warhol's famous picture, even to the point of lifting the colours... Since so much has been done before I tend to rate based on the the thought that went in and the choice of what to copy, but there are other perfectly valid views (like yours).

Actually James I like your use of the originality rating section. It allows more thought to be put into the assessment. I will adopt your method.