The title of this review caught my attention immediately.
I didn't pay much attention to the painting beside it, but once I noticed the painting I became nothing but confused and curious as to why and how someone would come up with something like this and be able to paint it.
The painter, Jim Shaw, does an incredible job of making unordinary things (or people in this case) seem like a part of everyday life. It is a wedding scene of Flash the Superhero and his wife is supposed to be the Land 'O Lakes Princess. The painting is a mural size and is twenty feet wide.
This is most definitely a painting that is meant to be seen and looked at for awhile before understanding the entire meaning, but the princess has the body of a corn husk, and there is a snake that is part of her body that is striking Flash's hip, this is where all the water comes from to the left.
This painting is full of interpretation that can only be viewed differently from each person that looks at it, but Jim does an amazing job of making something so unique seem almost magical and normal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/arts/design/jim-shaw-i-only-wanted-you-to-love-me.html?ref=design&_r=0
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