Chequamegon Bollinger
Artist using Appropriated Images – Week 5
Adam Lowenbein uses his own image
as a template for his portraits of celebrities. He is interested in the
exploration of self as celebrity or his facial features as celebrity. This
could be a study to understand what facial features could be categorized as
famous. The paintings feature recognizable images that are appropriated from
other paintings or photographs.
I chose
his work because of his creative use of appropriated imagery. It’s also easy to
miss him in the painting but as you take a closer look the artist emerges.
His choice of celebrity imagery is based on his own facial features and I think
that is a very natural way to choose images. We are all attracted to the
familiar images that remind us of ourselves or who we want to be. He may be
implying that we all truly want to be celebrities?
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