Subjective Critique

My first response to seeing Marilyn Diptych is always the same, I see a dull and hard to look at mess next to a harshly colored and hard to look at mess. I feel that the repetition does no good for the piece, it distracts instead of focusing on what is going on in the image. The color versus non-color I do not feel is a problem but it is the inconsistency between each individual image that causes more of a feeling of a bad print job instead of repetition. I’ve heard that this piece is supposed to show the celebrity versus death and I feel that it is a lazy way of accomplishing this, the black and white versus color always gave me the impression of the changing from painting into photography or doctored images versus undistorted images. Personally I would use one image cut in half: one side color, the other side black and white. The color side would show repetition on TVs with the image showing the celebrity while the other would show fading to a black image. This would create a piece with better feel and less noise in my opinion.