Michael Jackson in the works of contemporary artists
June 25, died a man with an incredible destiny - beloved by millions of «the King of Pop Music» Michael Jackson (Michael Jackson). His image has inspired many artists to create works of art. ARTinvestment.RU talks about some of these works.
This portrait of Jackson, made Andy Warhol (Andy Warhol) has appeared on the cover of TIME magazine March 19, 1984. At that time, 25-year-old singer is already considered one of the major stars of world pop music. He was famous at 11 years of age as a participant in the group Jackson 5, and in 1982 released the album Thriller, which went multi-copies and became one of the best-selling albums in the history of the music business. Not surprisingly, the most famous portrait of Jackson has created an artist, one of the main themes of creativity which is the cult of celebrity. Perhaps Warhol met with Jackson in the 1970's, when both were among the frequenters of the New York club Studio 54. In addition to painting, which is stored in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, Warhol and his assistants have created a number of prints that are occasionally appear at auction.
Like the songs of Michael Jackson, the art of Jeff Koons (Jeff Koons) was one of the symbols of the 1980's. A sculpture of singer, who sits on his knees chimpanzee named Babblz was performed in 1988 of three copies (plus one author). The material for her as a gold-plated porcelain. In May 2001, a copy was sold at auction Sotheby's for 5.6 million dollars. Now the prices are quite ordinary for an artist, but only eight years ago selling «Michael Jackson» has become a real sensation - until then a record for Koons was the sum of 1.8 million dollars.
In the past year the work of «Michael Jackson and chimpanzee Babblz» displayed on a personal exhibition artist, held in Versailles .
Ten years after the creation of Koons sculptures in New York giperrealist Richard Phillips (Richard Phillips) presented a picture of the public under the name «Jack» (Jacko) showing porcelain face superstars. Phillips drew the attention of the audience that the fate of Jackson's, and Koons something similar: both 1990's were a very difficult time.
«Time may be criminals, and possibly another» - the so-called article, printed in 1984 in the magazine Ebony. The author tried to imagine how Michael Jackson would look like in 2000. These descriptions and guided by a young African-American artist Hank Willis Thomas (Hank Willis Thomas) when creating their work.
Another «fantasia on the theme of», this time the ownership of Canadian artist of Chinese descent By Terence (Terence Koh). His Jackson «vzygrali African roots».
This sculpture - not only the image of Michael Jackson created Terence Ko. In 2004, the artist has created two small statuettes of the singer, covered with chocolate. As time pieces became Belet. Ko believes that it's even better: «more like Michael Jackson».
Material prepared Yulia Maksimova, AI
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