Video: Officers, officers: celebrities in the service of the Russian Empire in collages Steve Payne
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Like millions of other people, the artist Steve Payne interested in the life of celebrities - but at the same time in the history and art of tsarist Russia. Two hobbies of the artist led to the emergence of a series of witty collages in which everyone, everyone, everyone - from George W. Bush to Steve Jobs - is dressed in the uniforms of the tsarist army.
Paine pays homage to the artist in his works To George Dawe, who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who spent ten years working in St. Petersburg. From 1819 to 1829, Dow painted more than three hundred bust portraits of Russian officers who took part in the war with Napoleon; largely thanks to this cycle, he became one of the most demanded painters of his generation. Thanks to the efforts of the postmodernist Payne, who reinterpreted the Doe legacy in his own way, now you can dream about how Clint Eastwood, known for his courageous image, or, on the contrary, the melancholic Bill Murray, would have shown themselves as military officers.
Payne deliberately does not try to "age" movie stars, businessmen and politicians - they "fit" into the uniforms of the tsarist army right with their modern hairstyles. Bruce Willis keeps his trademark grin, and Daniel Craig glares at the female audience.
Payne's cycle is clear evidence of the fact that it is people like Steve Jobs and Bruce Willis now it would be more correct to regard them as "masters of souls." At the beginning of the 19th century, military officers were heroes for the young inhabitants of Russia; now their place has been taken by gallant movie stars and enterprising businessmen.
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