Sistine Madonna Appropriation Art
So I've been working on an art project since before exams really, and I finished it a while ago, but the story behind it is really interesting and I like the idea a lot, so I thought i'd share it.
We analysed different art works a couple of weeks ago, there's like 6 pages in my art book of me analysing the painting Sistine Madonna, so once we were done analysing, we had to create an appropriation art of it, so a recreation of he art work with your own ideas and interpretations, but yet inspired by the original work. So this painting Sistine Madonna is a religious painting from the Renaissance. I didn't really keep it religious, there's more of a moral to my recreation, or a message. I replaced the Madonna with an african woman, carrying her baby - just like the Madonna. She is standing in an oil spilling, representing all the wars going on in africa and in the middle east, since many of these are actually related to oil and because of oil.
The man in the original painting is supposedly Jesus, I painted him as a homeless man looking up to the african woman.
The woman in the original painting is looking away, I kept it that way. I painted the woman as a wealthy, privileged person just looking away, ignoring the problems.
The two baby angels are originally looking up at them all, but I changed that to two baby angels flying away, representing the fact that it may seem like we're not being watched over by angels, with all the horrible things people have to go through.
- caro
