The work I chose is "Torch". It was painted in 1960 by Norman Lewis as a wedding gift. The theme- or the story behind this painting- is that it "shows a scene familiar in Harlem: people gathered around a Sunday stump, with a speaker preaching on the city streets. The atmosphere appears to light up with the rhetoric of the fire-and-brimstone sermon that bellows through the crowds." The reason I chose this work is that, when I googled Lewis's paintings, the "Torch" is the one that lights me up- I was captured by its color and the warm feeling that it passes out. It was this kind of special feeling I felt in this painting that helped me make the decision to recreate this work in a modern media way. The texture is oil painting and the way of painting is a lot of short strokes gathered together with random directions- and this way of painting perfectly simulated the movement of flames. Further more, according to history background I quoted above, this painting also conveys happy and contains a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps it was the sense of nostalgia that eventually helped me decide to recreate this work.