Slammin with Green Day and various artists
Artist: Sixten. Horseshoes and Handgrenades.
"I went over [the original work] with coffee and watercolours to create more textures and tones. It turned out way better than I dared hope for and I’m really happy with the result. It was the first time I worked with watercolours.
With the frame, I wanted to give it a rough worn out feel, a bit like a mummy."
—Sixten
R.J.: Now this is more my kind of song!! "I’m not f***in’ around", and I really like this image. It’s like something classical in color and layout, like something you might see in a classic Philadelphia interior, but of course the subjects are different. Innocence and implied disaster. I’d buy this one...
D.M.: Sorry RJ, I think the images are too obvious. But the song is actually really growing on me, much like American Idiot did when it was first released. I wanted to dislike it for being so popular, but eventually gave in... the art just isn’t strong enough for the music—I like drama!
L.R.: Definitely strong entry here. The jungle law of Social Darwinism undergirds the establishment where the cliché of “close only counts in horseshoes and handgrenades” matters. The punk formalism works here because the song hits on the right historical notes. Individual freedom is okay if it doesn’t upset or usurp Family and Father.
For the art, I find that the artist achieves the deft juxtaposition in the simple watercolour medium, tempering the images in tonal colors that seem fresh and liberating yet still slyly perverse.
Guest reviewer Delfina: Kickass song. Not fucking around, indeed! It’s like a sonic blast that clears out the crap knocking around in your head. I like the art quite a bit, but it’s strangely soft, not very much like the song in tone. A dove trying to pull the pin out of a grenade is a deft image, but if wasn’t for the literal knowledge of what that means, the artwork itself is not visually menacing at all (coffee stains and spittle notwithstanding). Still, on its own the piece has a purity to it that is moving. (The bird looks more like a curious parakeet, which I would like even better.)
Green Day & artists | The Reviewers | Broken Crow - Song of the century | Ron English - 21st century breakdown | Will Barras - Viva la Gloria | Meggs - Christian’s inferno | Lucamaleonte - Last night on earth | Chris Stain - East Jesus nowhere | Eelus - Last of the American girls | Sixten - Horseshoes and handgrenades | Jeremiah Garcia - American eulogy
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