Sam & Lindsay are “American Sapphic”
L.A. based artists Ben Tegal is, like most Angelinos, unhealthily obsessed with celebrity. When not painting Britney Spears’ vagina, Tegal turns to more domestic situations– like the love affair between pop-tartlet Lindsay Lohan and DJ Samantha Ronson. The piece, inspired by the famous Grant Wood painting, “American Gothic,” is part of an upcoming show called “Name that ‘Toon’ at Hollywood’s World of Wonder Gallery (yes, the same World of Wonder that does RuPaul’s Drag Race), which opens March 27th. See the full image after the jump.
um…in American Gothic, the woman was the farmer’s niece, not wife.
If you look beyond the obvious gimmick (and even including it) this is really a poor piece of art. I know its going for the whole comic book grapihc design thing, but lohan’s face and neck are entirely flat with no real shading and the filters applied to sam’s face are weak. This is why I think graphic design prints (and I’m assuming that’s what this is, judging by the look of it) don’t really belong in fine art galleries. A nice piece of advertising or something to go beside a mocking headline in hello magazine maybe, but…
@fortunekooky: The model who posed as the woman (Artist Grand Wood’s cousin) told people it was a man and his daughter after a rural backlash against the perceived derision of the painting, but Wood never confirmed nor denied this, and the plain reading of the painting is that it portrays a couple in front of their home.
@J: Thank goodness – we’ve finally found someone with the answer to the eternal question of, ‘what is art?’.
O Wond’rous Oracle, prepare yourself for a deluge of calls from the ruined mortal ‘experts’, whose careers you have lain to waste by the sharing of your enlightened knowledge!
:)