I chose my painting largely because of the context in which the assignment was given. I learned about this technique with Peter Paul Rubens. When I found that "Saturn Devouring his son" by Fransisco de Goya seemed to me an emulation of Peter Paul Rubens I had to create my own take. Goya's saturn is very different, completel;y changing the themes and impact associated with it. I just redid Ruben's painting in pencil and made it modern, politically correct, kid friendly drawing.I needed to make the picture mine in some way, so I cartoonized it. Saturn loses all of his scariness when he is just munching on some delicious sour patch kids. He just looks really hungry now. Essentially, I tried to completely change the tone of the picture while keeping the same dark serious style in which it's made. Now the dark features in Saturn's face and the primal pose he is in seem ironic.
Though this sounds far from an artists answer, I also didn't enjoy looking at a kid being eaten. I feel that all of the power comes from that vulgarity of it. In this sense my version can also be used as instrument pointing to the importance of something challenging in good art.
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