Rihanna’s beatdown by Chris Brown not only caused headlines, now it’s inspiring art.
L.A.-based pop artist Sham Ibrahim’s new portrait of the “Disturbia” hitmaker is based on the now infamous police photo showing the singer bruised and bloodied.
But Sham’s intent is not to raise awareness about, let’s say, domestic violence. Instead, his reasons for creating the Andy Warhol-like piece?which is featured in the World of Wonder Storefront Gallery’s new group show,Name That ‘Toon, opening tonight in Hollywood?are quite simple?
“I thought the bruises in the police photo were interesting shapes to draw,” he says. “And it was cool to color them pink and blue. Those are two of my favorite colors.”[source]
Uh.. yeah. Uhm…. interesting.
:: sigh :: The hippie ass creative person in me … actually… finds it disgustingly..compelling and… sad to say… beautiful.
Yeah because there is so much beauty in all of that boolshyt that happened.
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I like it, I’m gon put it on my screen saver, wallpaper and Sun’dy mornin church fan!
Everyone has a hussle. Sad that her anguish has been exploited in such a way.
DAYUM SHAME. Yet… I find it interesting.
Sucks to b Rihanna doe. Imagine someone taking the worst day of your life and immortalizing it. bwahahah
On one hand, I like what he did to the photo. I think he could have experimented with more color, but…
On the other hand…he’s wrong as hell for exploiting her personal suffering. So no matter how much I may like the picture artistically, he ain’t shyt. End of story.
co-sign with Can’t, basically.
One of the annoying things about our culture is that there’s often a duality between the “media event” and the real person that is at the heart of it. In many ways that’s what (imho) Warhol was trying to say with the original tryptich he made of Marylin Monroe, considered by many to be one of the original peeople trapped inside their own public personna, colorized and sold in various shapes and colors to a hungry public.
It’s a disrespectful art piece. But it’s an interesting statement on the way the media and the public have reacted to this story.
ps – love the site redesign. Your kung fu is indeed mighty.
LOVE it!! It’s gorgeous and Imma download it and put it somewhere
Don’t really care about the personal suffering part…yea yea I know
but I don’t and I like it
Am I the only one who thinks you’re all crazy? Really? I wasn’t even all that crazy about Warhol! And if somebody tries to explain his art again, I will save the money for a plane ticket and piss on that person’s doorstep and fly back home, savvy?
P.S. To hell with Rhianna. She has a gun tattoo. She’s picked her path.
@ willfredo – yup. Because that piece is gorgeous and interesting. To me it speaks to the dicotomy of how we view celebrities as how celebrities view themselves.
We view celebrities as these mythical beings who we become utterly enamored with. We fawn over there every move and cling to their slightest of gestures as if their lives are our own 24/7 spectacle. They are unreal caricatures. And because of that unreal nature, even at the most serious of times and most despicable of occurences, like mothes to the flame, we still find it impossible to look away, and we still feel the need to gawk and celebrate at what happens to them.
Look at the piece. look at how the bright colours dance together to form a visual collage for your eyes. an almost surreal patchwork that is pleasing to look at.
But underneath that is this in your face, raw emotion that pulls at your collar and demands you see the horror of it all.
It’s a a mind f--k.
You are pleased by the colours and visual, but disgusted and angered by the emotion.
And that is the point of art.
To cause emotion. to show emotion and to some times offend and confuse.
P.s.
My jibby has a vein on it that looks like HIghway I-75
Are we still feeling sorry for the silly bird who had her ass whipped and decided to get a gun tattooed under her arm? really? man f--k that crazy b---h. no offense.
Slaus – Why don’t you wear a form fitting turtle neck already? I came here for a feast and all I got was nouveau cuisine!
P.S. My jibby’s veins looks like a route in the Patagonian Jungle, post Indiana Jones.
Min – I know, right? When will folks stop looking up at Mt. Olympus and discover that they, too, can eat in a reclining position? When?
Plus, I’m drunk typing again.
P.S. Only women can see the map that I have in El Guapo. Gold Diggers, ho!
My Jibby has a vein that looks like the Holland tunnel. Its called my urethra.
Min – Dude, what anatomy class did you attend? Plus the Holland Tunnel? You want some connection to NJ, really?
*stares intently at The Twins* That’s right!
LOL at min and wolf. Man I wanna get the knight rider light installed on my jibby. Just so it can make that woooooo- wooooo sound as the light pulsates
The one that taught me that the urethra is the tube that carries the urinations from bladder to the back of some skanky bird.
@ Slaus..and it would look way cool in the dark.
am late.. *puts apple on slaus’ desk*
like the new look…
would have loved a flocked wall paper background to make it look homely and stuff but industrial brick is easy on the eye…
am ignoring the pic above… it’s that bad..
and my mom made ass whoopin a fine art…
knight rider lights could work… maybe all men should have them… ladies would agree that anything that helps you menfolk pee straight down the pan instead of anywhere but is a good thing…
Who did this?! WWWWWOOOOOWWWWWWW!!! Who said this was art and beautiful… id sue the piss outta somebody
london – I wish I could say that men missing the toilet is a stereotype, but having worked in bars in the past, made me see that a lot of these f--gers don’t deserve well kept bathrooms. One night I had to clean the men’s room and idiot me thought the pipes had burst. Oh, how the staff laughed at my reaction when they told me that that flood wasn’t water. I cannot fathom how these bastids can miss such a huge hole. Hmph, no wonder women complain about men in bed.
I trained my penis to break boards to impress the ladies. Sometimes I go all out and tie a black belt around it.
*a shoe comes flying out of the darkness to thwack Wolfie right in the back of his damn neck*
Okay, so she has less sense than a goldfish. I have no argument with that. She’s made some stupid choices that are going to affect her badly down the line. Sure thing. She’s picked her own path and I no longer have any sympathy for what happens to her after this.
But that makes okay for someone to plaster her pain on some canvas with some splashes of color(which he could have used more of, I personally think his palette is stilted)? For some notoriety?
No, sorry.
Soooooooooo this is obviously highly controversial. But i just about died when i read the chuuuch fan comment. I agree that its harsh but you gotta admit its mad creative!
I wouldn’t want anyone to do this to me and yes it is slightly ig’nant but isn’t that what we folk find entertaining these days? tha ig’nant!
if not, please explain flavor of love seasons 1 and 2 and the 35235 spin-offs!
YoMama – I think it has to do with the deliberate dumbing down of society. A Pax Romana, if you will. That leaves some of us to overcompensate and use words like Pax Romana. If I had a way to use italics for those words I would.
Perhaps, if the purpose had been to call attention to Domestic Violence and how common it is for the victim to go back into that relationship, this piece might not bother me as much. ::smh::
BUT
The defense would like to once again point out that, Bella, Ms. K nor did I have nothing to do with the jibby talk.
Highway I-75?
Patagonian Jungle
Holland Tunnel?
It’s like a f--gin world tour of jibbys. Never knew map reading could be so much fun.
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