A Bigger Splash © David Hockney (1967)

Best Interpretation: “Must have been you there, dived-in and disappeared. Must have been you there, the water abloom in sparks, the day around you so smooth, the two palms requesting of the weather a little lean-to, the clean lines of building and board, the burn-in in memory mostly Grecian blue, purest white nd the stab at the foreground of yellow. Must have been you once, hitting the surface knifely & lean, breaking through with such ease–my better bright, my electic eel, my slender saviour, you there crashing through, water geysering where you’d been and lightning in your wake.” -S. Kartsonis

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Untitled © Gottfried Helnwein (1993)

Best Interpretation: “…It seems to me that the faith of the Subject for her broken and imperfect child/link to God, is what makes this piece so strong (just like the affection a child would have for its one-eyed teddy bear). The choice of rendering in a fifteenth century religious painter style, elevates the fragile quality of life that haunts us in the hint of death. The visceral transience of our fleshy shells is held against the perfection of religious ideals to be interpreted by the atheist and believers alike.” -Duncan Reid

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