The cool thing about glitch art is, in a way, it's a lot like history. In some ways, history is not relative, but in more ways than not, history is a very relative thing. Everybody sees things in a different perspective and because of this, no matter how hard we try we will never get a completely objective account of what happened in history. It's why our textbooks focus more on the accomplishments of men than of women. It's why our country celebrates a white-washed version of Columbus Day. Skew adds upon skew until some points of history are likely so distorted we wouldn't recognize them if we were actually there. Glitch art twists a pre-established piece much like perspective twists an event.
Edgar Degas' The Pink Dancers Before the Ballet
M.C. Escher's Relativity
Jackson Pollock's Convergence
Albretcht Durer's A Study in Hands
Francisco Goya's Blind Man's Bluff
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