Pop painter Richard Phillips — you’ve seen his work in… museums… or on Gossip Girl — is known for his glossy pictorial-style paintings, mostly of women. But Richard Phillips was commissioned by VMAN
to paint five of the most in-demand men on the planet: Robert Pattison,
Justin Timberlake, Zac Efron, Chace Crawford, and Leonardo DiCaprio. In
Phillips’ “Most Wanted” series
of paintings, he uses male idols not only of sexual lust but of
commercial desire as well, placing them against step-and-repeat
backdrops that question the relationship between celebrity and
commerce, hence Robert Pattinson behind a Louis Vuitton background.
VMAN’s Aimee Walleston writes, “Actors
get press coverage by being photographed in front of walls plastered
with sponsor logos. Sponsors get their brands blessed by the power of
celebrity. By reinterpreting these photographs (which Phillips
describes as “utterly worthless, and completely harnessed to commerce”)
in pastel, Phillips has effectively brought each of these famous men
into the realm of sorcery.
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