Lainey Reynolds Analysis

The two pieces from the Point Loma High School art gallery I picked to compare were by Nicole Soriano and Lainey Reynolds. The first piece, by Soriano, is a drawing with many celebrities such as Barack Obama and Miley Cyrus along with shoes, a television, a rocketship, etc. Everything in the drawing seems to be melting like a popsicle as well. The second piece, a painting by Lainey Reynolds, shows a girl sitting upside down with her legs up and crossed. She is staring directly forward and little black dots are painted all around her. They are coming out of her tightly held fists.
The symbols in the first piece are the shoes and how everything in the drawing is melting. They symbolise how modern things are falling apart or “melting away”. The shoes show the steps to the future that holds new trend and fads. For example, the television melting away shows that it is becoming less and less popular by the day. In the second piece, I believe they are the little black dots around the girl and the fact that she is upside down. They help to make it more obvious that the girls world is falling apart and she is struggling …show more content…
The theme of the second piece is that it is extremely hard to keep control of your life when it has just been flipped upside down because the girl in the painting is upside down with black dots almost exploding out of her hands to show she cannot keep control anymore. I believe the second piece better displayed the theme the artist was trying to illustrate because of its symbolise that were more obvious to its viewers. It showed its theme better than the first piece because the first piece is basically a big jumble of items that on first glance might have its views confused whereas the second piece was very simple while still effectively displaying its main