Tag: Homage
Transgressive art-stalwart Orlan is suing Lady Gaga and Universal in Paris. According to Le Quotidien de l’Art via ARTinfo, Orlan wants $31.7 million or 7.5% of “Born This Way” album and video profits, citing three specific art works which the artist aggressively homaged including Femme Avec Tête (“Women With Head”), 1996. Since it’s a decapitated head on a table and those […]
Swiss artist Till Rabus pays homage to Salvador Dalí with his deliciously bizarre series “Surrealist Camping Lunch.” In Rabus’ anthropomorphic food-themed reinterpretations of paintings like The Metamorphosis of Narcissus and The Temptation of St. Anthony, Dalí’s signature stretched elephant legs become eating utensils and his metaphorical egg becomes… an egg. Rabus’ work just made an internet resurgence, thanks […]
Photographer Cheyne Gallarde took to Kickstarter last year with a unique way to raise hype and funds for his Universe of One self-portrait series. The project was designed to be a book in which he’d take on the likenesses of a large cast of characters from a variety of backgrounds and genders — an idea derived […]
