Getting High on Revlon...
Friday, July 14, 2006
"Supermodels are of the most desirable, most untouchable elements of our society. I wanted to paint them in my style, to juxtapose their message with mine. The simplicity in my art taunts them, just like they taunt us” - said Richard Scott, the artist who is arguably working towards a position as the Tay Dall of figurative painting in South Africa. Thus, Mr. Scott was commissioned to paint the eight finalists for the Revlon Supermodel 2006 competition to be exhibited at a gala event on Sunday.
What, I wonder, is the supermodel's message? What is Richard's? Vacuous, pretty and light, I guess they have a lot in common. Anyway, you can watch a documentary on Richard's artmaking process - following the trials and tribulations of both the supermodels and Richard Scott as he sketches, simplifies and paints his way into notoriety on SABC 2 tonight at 6pm - and who says the South African media are uninterested in visual art?
The paintings have titles like 'Shoot me (Anetha)' and 'Zoom in (Margaret') and 'Auto focus (Kristin)' - though I feel compelled to point out the utter ridiculous misogynist, traditionalist fuck up this suggests I don't think it's that necessary. Oh and the girl on the left is 'ASA 1000 (Palesa)', you can tell she's the black one from her pointy breasts.....
posted by Josephine Scarlet at 12:12 PM
8 Comments:
What's with the Seether quote?
Hey Richard, since when have models minded simplicity??
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the twofold messages of Richards work are pretty clear ...
'Cant draw, wont draw'
and
'GIVE ME THE MONEY'
actually I retract the above.
Richard's profile face on the middle one is rather good. he can actually draw!
Soz, Richard!
May I call you Dick?
the main simularity i see between richard and the models is the notion of thin.
i dunno, i think 'rich' probably features too
and over exposed....
and lets hope with a similar lifespan of about, um, 2 years
Has anyone shown these to Julian Opie?
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