The artist I chose was JD Jarvis. This piece grabbed me because of the composition itself and how complex it is, it wasn't very textural, its almost ethereal. Its also veru haunting, it looks like an illustration of a nightmare. The title is SIN TESTIGOS which means "no witnesses". The story behind it is that of the murdering of over 400 women over a 10 year period in Juarez, Mexico, with no witnesses. The mutilated bodies of these women are often found in the junkyards of that area.
The artist intentions were not these results, but in allowing himself to work freely he created Sin Testigos.
There is a strong reference to a famous work by Picasso entitled "Guernica", that he painted in reference to the horrors of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930's
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