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Richard Osterweil Celebrities On A Bad Day.
In this series of small portraits, I have tried to transform the tabloid photo into an Iconic/Classcial portrait, inspired by portraits by
Holbein, Manet, Goya and many others.However, the celebrity photos which I choose are those which capture a horrible moment, expression or angle of the celebrity involved. Some are beautiful people who happen to look
awful like Mel Gibson or Diana Ross; some are people who NEVER have a good day, like Camilla Parker Bowles and Linda Tripp; and some are people so bizzare-looking that they simply MUST be captured on canvas, like
Jocelyn Wildenstein and Michael Jackson. These are definitely not caricatures - I am careful no to exaggerate the features, as the reality is sufficiently awful for my purpose. |
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