Contemporary Painting Thread

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Eberhard Havekost



Based in Dresden, Eberhard Havekost often paints the city?s modernist-style buildings as a means to reference 20th century post-war politics and failed utopian vision. Havekost explores the parallels between these systemic ideas of perfection and the modes of ideal image construction.

Working from his own collection of photos and video footage, Havekost alters the original images on a computer: hues are subtly altered, forms imperceptibly stretched and skewed. These complications are then further translated through the process of painting.

What Havekost presents isn?t photographic precision, but rather transient moments of abstracted perception; the intentional ?errors? make the image appear more natural and visually pleasing.

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Richard Phillips (born 1962), is an artist from the United States of America. He was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts and lives and works in New York City.

Phillips is known for his large-scale glossy hyper-realistic paintings, recalling the pictorial style of magazines from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s and reflecting traditions of popular image culture. His paintings represent close-up portraits, predominantly of women from fashion and soft porno magazines, but also persons from the fields of pop music and politics. He says "My pictures involve a kind of wasted beauty - that's always been a thread in my work."

In the second season of The CW network's Gossip Girl in the episode "The Serena Also Rises" one of Phillips' pieces is bought and displayed in the home of Bart and Lilly Bass on the stairwell.

This year (2011) he has made his first film, Lindsay Lohan. It feature Lindsay Lohan in the short film, whthe famously-troubled blonde mega-celebrity in all manner of brooding, bikini-clad swimming and sunning scenes; a portrait of the star that vividly evokes the decades-old cinematic tropes of sexy fragrance ads. Grant, with a much better soundtrack. San Franciso's Tamaryn provides the score for the minute-and-a-half film, whose epically lush, shoegazey track "Cascades" ripples over each cascading wave caught on film.

Here it is (this has been post on various threads and the front page today, so props to everyone else who liked it too):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--rs7...layer_embedded

Here are some images of Richard doing his other thing:

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