Half-Klimt (one, two, three), half-Rothko (one, two, three) – I know they’ve been everywhere, but they’re so bloody beautiful: Every Playboy Centrefold: The Decades. There’s something so elusive and gestural about them – and the traces of writing and iconography lingering around the bodies just makes the whole thing seem even less to do with flesh and still more numinous.
The same artist achieved similar effects with a triptych of stills of late night chat-show presenters and used the same process on images of homes for sale, which is equally breath-taking.
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You know that site hosting the Playboy pictures is just asking for a lawsuit from Heff’s lawyers.
Fuzzy houses and late night trash show ok but messing with Playboy babes is a mean thing to do.
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