Portrait of Marilyn Manson at Columbine
Was Marilyn Manson to blame for Columbine? Was it his music that caused the tragedy at Columbine? Or, was he not at all connected to this event? These are the questions that motivated Peter Reynosa to paint his painting called "Portrait of Marilyn Manson at Columbine."
It is a strange painting that has a swastika, upside down cross, and an inverted pentagram that are suspended over a crowd of people. "I used these symbols to represent Marilyn Manson," Reynosa said. "The swastika is used because Columbine occurred on April 20, Adolf Hitler's birthday. And Marilyn Manson loves Nazi symbolism,...
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