Classic Hollywood Star and Famous Paintings: A Series of Mashups by Luigi Tarini
Vivien Leigh
The Cave of the Storm Nymphs, oil on canvas by Sir John Edward Poynter, English, 1836-1919. Private Collection.
Bacchanalian Scene, 1862, oil on wood by Richard Dadd, English, 1817-1886. Private Collection.
Dadd was a popular artist when he murdered his father with a razor in 1843. He fled via Kent and Dover and by boat to Paris. In a coach from Paris, he attacked a fellow passenger, inflicting deep razor wounds. Dadd claimed he was acting under the instructions of the Egyptian sun god Osiris and that he was the “son and envoy of God sent to kill the men most possessed by the demon.” – The New Statesman.
Spending the rest of his life in asylums, he was nearly forgotten until the 1970s when there was a revival of his work. A major exhibition was held at Tate Britain in London in 1974.
“Titania Sleeping” by Richard Dadd, 1841.
The Ecstasy of St. Francis, 1601, oil on canvas by Giovanni Baglione Italian, 1566-1643. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
A late Mannerist and early Baroque artist, Baglione was also a historian who wrote about other artists. While being influenced by Caravaggio, he was critical of Caravaggio’s life and later work.
Cressida (detail) Edward John Poynter (1836 - 1919)
Mariana in the South, c. 1897, by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Self-Portrait with Physalis, 1912, and Portrait of Wally, 1912, by Egon Schiele (1890-1918)
Ophelia, 1880, by Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)
River Phoenix & Keanu Reeves photographed by Bruce Weber on set of the film My Own Private Idaho - circa 1990
River Phoenix, Lili Taylor, and Richard Panebianco at the premiere of Dogfight (1991).
