Elizabeth Peyton (who primarily paints photos found in magazines) is now all public eye for painting, from a photograph, Michelle and Sasha Obama. Washington Post says Peyton AMAZINGLY painted the photo-cum-paint portrait in ONLY five days. uh. you are painting from an already incredibly well composed photograph. I should hope it can be done in five days, unless its oh, a MILLION BY A MILLION FEET and you stretched your own canvas. (unlikely) The Post and Peyton call the resulting painting 'transcendent'. I am this close to submitting it to FAILBLOG.
Am I ever going to hate on artists getting credit or being more well known? to put it simply, no. To be a little more in depth, I feel that there is a huge line (huge. not fine) between painting from a photo and getting credit-and using live trace/vector maps to mass success-and having a provocative concept and execution of a work. Both Shepard and Peyton navigate around fair-use copyright laws which allows them to place viewer emphasis on the reinterpretation of an initial moving photograph and onto something more publicly seen as 'arty'. Seriously, kind of fucking nonsense. I am so over it. FOR SHAMMMEEEEEE because right now, Peyton and Fairey are no better than those douche bag kids that traced all their projects to get by in studio and claim that their 'work is just as viable. or not.
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