Review of Lecture of Mark Bradford

He appropriates imagery from his surroundings, pairing an examination of the formal issues of abstraction and figuration with sociological questions regarding systems of culture, communication, and exchange in his Los Angeles neighborhood. Found elements incorporated into his work include permanent-wave endpapers, foil, scraps of paper, and remnants of posters from abandoned lots, telephone poles, and fences.

A Pair of Boots VS Diamond Dust Shoes

A pair of shoes lies in the centre of the painting. The left One of them is overturned. Nothing special, if nobody told me that it was one of many masterpieces by Vincent Van Gogh, I would never pay attention to this tiny piece of work. It is just a pair of shoes, precisely a pair of old shoes. The usage of light and shadow makes it look like something real, but different from the real which Da vinci pursued.
As to Andy Warhol's Diamond Dust Shoes, what I saw are several shoes with different colours, I don't know why they were defined "diamond" and "dust". It seems like they are some symbols trying to tell people something, or they are some symbol separated from any meanings. I am not sure about any points I made. It seems that everything I saw were fake, I doubt.