Taylor Swift, Rihanna In Bed With Kanye West In "Famous" Music Video | Lehren Hollywood
Fridays reveal of Kanye Wests music video for Famous proved difficult to ignore.Among other eye-popping moments, therapper featured ascene of figures in the likenessof celebrities includingDonald Trump and Taylor Swift sleeping n***d in a bed. Art buffs may instantly recognize the connection between theimage and the 2008 painting Sleep,by Vincent Desiderio.
West commented on the artists inspiration during an event in Los Angeles The Forum in conjunction with the video premiere. Desiderio is a New York-based painter and sculptor, andcurrently a senior critic at thePennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. The stimulus forSleep,first presented in 2004 as a work in progress, was his struggle with a rare form of nasal cancer.
I began being visited by this image of a continuous band of sleepers, Desiderio toldThe Virginia Quarterly Review. He added, I mean, its not all that mysterious how such a notion might have originated for me, all alone like that, feeling so terribly vulnerable and separated from the world of healthy people, this primitive longing for company, the fantasy affording me a sort of comfort.
Wests recreation of the painting for Famous uses the likeness ofhimself,his wife Kim Kardashian West,Rihanna, former PresidentGeorge W. Bush, Caitlyn Jenner, Bill Cosby, Anna Wintour, and more. Regarding the nudity, he told Vanity Fair, We were very careful with shots that had [something] sexual to take them out.
See a comparison below (via The Fader).
Source: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/06/25/kanye-west-famous-video-vincent-desiderio-sleep-painting
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