MS Paint: Paint Fidelity / Bob Dylan - "Blonde on Blonde" / "Ralph Rumpelton" Art

“Blonde on Blonde, decoded at last: Dylan as lunar glyph, scarf as comet, hair as cosmic static. A portrait less of a man than of fate itself.” – 

 What the critics are saying:

>>Aurelia Monteverde – The Mystic
Instituto de la Sombra Infinita, Mexico City

"Here we see two mirrors of the same wandering soul. On the right, the blurred photograph, Dylan dissolving into the grain of time, a prophet caught between flesh and shadow. On the left, Rumpelton's Paint translation renders him as an oracle from another dimension: the scarf becomes a comet’s tail, the hair a constellation of jagged stars, the face a pale moon unblinking in its watch. This is no parody—it is the Tarot’s Fool card reborn in digital glyphs, beginning the journey with innocence and with danger. In your strokes, destiny has reduced Dylan to pure symbol: not man, but omen. It is as though the cosmos whispered, 'Strip him of detail, and he becomes eternal.'"<<

>>Gerald Thimbleton

The left panel—an MS Paint rendition of Bob Dylan’s "Blonde on Blonde"—offers precisely the type of populist provocation that so irks defenders of real painting. With digital tools as substitute for brush and pigment, what emerges is not an homage, but a highly synthetic echo of tradition, trading the sensual depth of oil for the flat bravado of pixelated modernity. If the original cover immortalizes Dylan’s mystery through the tactility and grain of analog photography, this MS Paint version—with its geometric strand, vacant face, and earnest yet brittle scarf—thrusts dignity aside in favor of rigid digital abstraction.<<

>>Regina Pembly on Ralph Rumpelton's "Blonde on Blonde"

"In a baffling affront to the sanctity of traditional art, Ralph Rumpelton has decided to reinterpret Bob Dylan's seminal 'Blonde on Blonde' using MS Paint. The result is a mess of blocky lines and garish colors that insults the very essence of Dylan's masterpiece. Rumpelton's cartoonish rendition of Dylan looks like it was crafted by a toddler having a tantrum on a keyboard. And yet... there's a certain brazen stupidity to it that's almost... intriguing? No. No, there isn't. This is an affront. A travesty. A Rumpeltonian abomination. Grade: F. But hey, in the Rumpelton Universe, maybe this counts as 'art'."

— Regina Pembly, Art Critic<<