Analysis Of My Medusa By Randy Kirksey

The painting I choice is called My Medusa and was made by Randy Kirksey. The painting is one of the few paintings at the Merced Multicultural Art Center in Merced that were not digital prints which already made this painting pop to my eyes. This paint is a oil painting and a two dimensional painting on canvas. This work is a fairly new painting as My Medusa was made just one year ago in 2015. I just absolutely love Greek Mythology so I had to write about this painting. Once I saw the familiar snakes on the woman's head I rushed to get a detailed look at this painting. I have actually seen a lot of paintings in my time as this is my third Art History class, but seeing a painting of Medusa was different. She’s rarely put on canvas as others in …show more content…
All the techniques the artist used made a great painting of the Greek creature Medusa. The artist did a great job at contrasting evil with elegance in this painting. It adds to the shock of this painting and gets viewers really interesting in his piece of artwork. The artist clearly thought about how he wanted his viewers to see his version of Medusa. He helped us to see his version of Medusa through his own eyes. The subject of Medusa in general is a great one for a painting. Most viewers are familiar with some sort of version of the snake haired women and it was great to show appreciation for Medusa through a canvas artwork because many over look Medusa through all the others in Greek Mythology. Overall I liked Randy Kinsey’s work. Honestly I came very close to overlooking it in my search for a piece of art to write about. I went in there trying to find a piece of art I many find “easy” to write about, but when I saw Medusa I just knew that I just had to write about her. I liked seeing Medusa from a different perspective from the one I already had of her. The different perspectives one can see in his work of evil,elegance, and tiredness can really make you wonder what his overall intent was in this