i always wondered, what is your picture of swanicyouth? a candle? is there some meaning
The picture is a work from the 1983 Gerhard Richter painting Kerze ("Candle") and also the cover of SY's 1988 "Daydream Nation".
Daydream Nations Accolades (from Wikipedia):
It was ranked number 1 on Pitchfork Media's list of the one-hundred greatest albums of the 1980s, number 13 on Spin magazine's list of the one-hundred greatest albums from 1985–2010, and number 45 on the Rolling Stone list of the one-hundred greatest albums of the 1980s. In 2003, the album was ranked number 328 on Rolling Stone's list of the five-hundred greatest albums ever. It was one of 50 recordings chosen by the Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry in 2006.
More on the artist:
Richter is known for photo paintings using his technique "the blur".
From Wikepedia on "the blur":
Photo-paintings and the "blur"
Richter created various painting pictures from black-and-white photographs during the 1960s and early 1970s, basing them on a variety of sources: newspapers and books, sometimes incorporating their captions, (as in Helga Matura (1966)); private snapshots; aerial views of towns and mountains.
Many of these paintings are made in a multi-step process of representations. He starts with a photograph, which he has found or taken himself, and projects it onto his canvas, where he traces it for exact form. Taking his color palette from the photograph, he paints to replicate the look of the original picture. His hallmark "blur" is achieved sometimes with a light touch of a soft brush, sometimes a hard smear by an aggressive pull with a squeegee
Another, more extreme example of "blurring" from Richter:
An example of Richter's non-print work:
Maybe I'll go back to Groucho:
