These ones got prep sketches but were never painted:
Stay (Faraway, So Close): was pretty weak and I don’t have a scan of the sketch handy.
So Cruel: I like the composition of the piece itself, but I don’t feel it quite captures the song as well as it might.
Prep Sketch - Large - Full Size
The song itself is about the men who were taken from their families during Augusto Pinochet’s rule of Chile and never heard from again. The mothers weren’t even told wether their children were alive or dead. Stylistically, this painting very obviously follows immediately on the success of […]
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Bad is a beautiful, touching song about addiction and helping someone to deal with an unsurmountable problem. It’s dark, plaintive, but not without hope. This painting however, is without hope. Put shortly, one of U2’s best songs and one of my worst creations. I was […]
Original crayon doodle - Prep sketch - Large - Full Size
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It’s hard to imagine a more angry, politically driven U2 song than Bullet The Blue Sky. Edge’s guitar work brings out the shrieks of South American countries laid to waste by the US government of the 1980s. This painting is undoubtedly the […]
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This is the only 100% Grade that I’ve gotten from a teacher and regretted. I don’t think this lives up to the power and intensity of the song, and I also feel Mothers and Streets (which my teacher graded as worse) are easily stronger paintings. […]
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The pictures of this one are of second-rate quality because the painting is in the possession of an ex-girlfriend. This is one that overall I am slightly pleased with, but over time my opinion of it has lowered. The song itself is definitely one […]
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Where The Streets Have No Name is unquestionably one of U2’s most powerful songs, so coming up with something to try and represent that pure energy and drive was a tricky proposition. In trying to think of a concept, I examined the lyrics intensively and […]
AVI OAC PERSONAL THEME STATEMENT
What do I want to say or express in my work?
For my theme I will try to express through paint the wonder of music. Each painting will specifically represent a few lines of lyrics from a particular song. Beyond that, I will try and make the paintings reflect the song […]
In OAC Art class (that would have been late 2001 to early 2002) part of the class was to create 6 or more works of art based around a certain theme. I chose to visually interpret U2 songs, and unsurprisingly ended up doing the fewest necessary works, though i will always wish that I did […]
Written by George F. Walker, and illegally transcribed by me