From Ynet
London’s National Portrait Gallery has opened an exhibit of enigmatic artist Andy Warhol’s Jewish Personalities.
The paintings showed in London date from 1980 and display in brilliant color portraits of Jewish personalities from science and psychology (Einstein and Freud) through literature (Kafka and Gertrude Stein), the arts (Gershwin and Sarah Bernhardt).
It also includes the pictures of Golda Meir, Israel’s fourth prime minister and Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish judge to be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Warhol referred to the collection as his “Jewish geniusesâ€. Among the eminent personalities he also decided to place the Marx brothers, Chico, Harpo and Groucho, who added their mischievous and irreverent take on life much as Andy Warhol did himself.
If you happen to be like our Jewdas friends and in London, be sure to check it out. Unfortunetly, you will not be able to see ck’s Warhol’s later work, seen above from his lesser known “Jewish Bloggers” series.
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Its laya
This whole time, I’m staring at that picture going, how do I know this woman? I admit it…the mole threw me off. I had no idea who I was looking at. Must sleep.
Please don’t remove the shiksa-like goddess.
Heh. I said shiksa.
i agree with Sarah N. In fact, a less busy wallpaper couldn’t hurt either. It clashes with the Jewlicious logo.
CK, great job on the pic- I vote for putting Laya on the background
what’s become of the rest of laya’s left eyebrow?
The current background is fine and great!
that’d be a really jewlicious background, unlike the current one.
I second N’s suggestion. Laya, would you be amenable to that?
I just put this on VJ- in the newsletter, no less. But can you do me a favor- stop using so much damn punctuation!
Warhol called this series Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century– those belonging to this one are out of luck. Think of what he could have done with Middle’s penguin profile.
Amazing pic! Damn Ck, you should do this graphic-design stuff for a living.
Heh.
How much do you take per portrait? I think you’re on to something here…I’d love to see what you do with David Kelsey’s divine mug.
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Here are a couple of images from the show.
That’s the pic that should be in the background instead.
and where’s the jewelry?
Why does that picture make you look like a slightly washed-up 1950s movie star circa 1963 after a few too many Tom Collins and bathroom nose-powderings drunkenly asking Elia Kazan if there’s something in your teeth at the Tomkat Club?
Also, what am I talking about?