Critique

I think that the work was mostly successful. Comparing my work to the original, I realize the importance of her choice to keep her words more consistent in color, typeface, and style. It looks cleaner and keeps focus more on the message and its chosen image, whereas mine looked almost tacky. I think in that aspect I was a little ambitious in trying to use the visual aesthetic of each word to communicate a little more than just the word itself and to have emphasis on certain words, but it was worth a shot. I think the red border did a good job of tying the work back into itself as well as the original work. With the magazine-style words and the red border, it almost looked like they could be Time Magazine covers or something similar. The border seemed to give it more credibility and importance, which was really relevant in the context of the artwork because it is definitely something that needs to be talked about, not just a visually appealing piece. The contrast between the words and images, similarly to Kruger's works, is quite apparent and probably one of the main driving forces of what makes the piece pop out.