Analysis and interpretation of the short storyFlypaperBy Simon Armitage
Flypaper is a modern day short story written by Simon Armitage. One of the main themes of the story is how modern art is expressed by today’s artists. In the text we hear about an artist whose “art” is extremely spectacular. I use the quotation marks because it is a very unordinary style of art – a kind of graffiti, usually in the form of an identification left in concrete, or a handprint pressed into a pavement. Another piercing theme is the parallels drawn between the art and the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
The artist is an anonymous mysterious man. In fact, he is so mysterious that he starts catching the attention of the media. People from all over the world want to see his art and know who he is. A chat-show host and one of the tabloids end up putting a bounty on the artist’s head, to make sure that they are the ones to unmask and reveal him to the world.He is a man who will be remembered because of what he created. His works of art will exist for centuries and maybe even millenniums because of their unique style. In his final piece of art he displays himself as Jesus Christ, wearing nothing but a loose rag around his waist and a barbed wire around his head:
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