What the critics are saying:
>"Blonde on Blonde (MS Paint Remaster)" – Ralph Rumpelton
Rendered in the uncompromising austerity of pixelated brushstrokes, Rumpelton's reimagining of Dylan's 1966 masterpiece is less a tribute than a forensic reconstruction from memory. The frozen stare, the checkerboard backdrop, the scarf like a punctuation mark — it’s all there, and yet unmistakably not there.
This is Blonde on Blonde stripped of its mystique and sealed in digital concrete. The text shouts “2-RECORD SET ON 1 COMPACT DISC,” as if warning the viewer that compression—both audio and emotional—is part of the deal. Dylan appears here not as a man, but as a myth filtered through the flat, merciless lens of MS Paint.
Pop Art meets Public Access. Folk revival meets forced perspective. Rumpelton doesn’t just repaint the past—he renders it with the same dispassion as a barcode scanner.
“Visions of Johanna” never felt so trapped in a grid.<<
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