janedoepa
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AHHHH The madatory NUCLEAR EXPLOSION SHOT! VERY COOL!~and very bright on eyes that were out very late at a lakeside pic-a-nic with chums...(Slurples coffee)
That glamorous life painting is cool. I don't have very much artistic talent and know I couldn't do anything nearly that good but...my first reaction was that it looked like Elvis and the more I'm looking at it I'm seeing something about it that reminds me of Robert Smith in that "male-pretty" sort of way, which is contrary to what we know and see of Mr. Trent. He's much more angular, harsher/harder in most pics, with a kind of back off stare (The quintessential "Bad Boy" image)...and I think the BIG throw off in it is the eyes. I have blue eyes with green and some yellow around the pupils, and though they change color all the time, they can't ever turn hazel brown/green, which, I THINK are the color of Mr. Reznor's, if I remember correctly (From the INTO The VOID video), so that gives it a feel that something's a little off too possibly...at least for me...that doesn't make it bad though.
I think overall it's VERY well done and a very good painting, it's just a VERY stylized/idealized portrait. It's the artist's vision/perception of Trent, as is any artist's portrait of any other human being...it's even possible to catch someone at a strange angle with photography and although you KNOW it HAS to be a true depiction of the person, because it IS the person, if the angle is strange it can look like someone you don't know so...I think it's all in perspective and perception.
Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 06/07/2009 06:45AM by janedoepa.
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