Lullaby of 2020
Our piece is a representation of the spontaneity of events that occurred in 2020, as well as the different moods that were experienced while being stuck at home during the pandemic. We decided to choose this art piece because it had a very chaotic sense to it as demonstrated by the questionable background, the variety of objects on the foreground, and the different artists that are portrayed along with their absurd features.
In our recreation of the painting, we replaced the artists faces with those of our own. One of us is replacing Picasso in the background and instead of the wine bottle and wine glass we have a laptop and a mug, which are objects that are prominent in the life of online school. We also decided to have that person wrapped in a blanket instead of wearing an outfit that mirrored the one in the original piece, and made them have a sad facial expression to display one of the moods of being stuck at home. because it followed our theme.
We also decided to replace Magritte and Dali, who are represented by Madeline and her twin sister. To make this more accurate to our theme, we decided that Madeline would be taking a selfie while her sister is in a blanket holding her laptop. She has a happy facial expression to represent another mood of being at home during the pandemic. The rest of the piece contains details that further represent this idea of quarantine and staying home, such as the toilet paper, the dog/dog toy, and the mask.
Other objects convey multiple events that occurred during 2020. In the background Meira is standing with a Black Lives Matter poster to demonstrate the BLM protests that were hugely significant this year. There is also a Trump/Pence flag to portray the political tension that occurred this year as well.
An important feature of this piece is our glitchy background and our inclusion of the screen sharing effect, which is meant to enforce the theme of online school and some of the realities of using zoom that come along with it. We noticed the chaos of the original artwork and decided to work off of randomness of the objects and people in the piece, and tie it into our own version where we replace those people and objects with ones that represent the time we are living in now.
