"Prada Banality", Post-Painterly Art VI

or 'Fashion For Intellectuals' (FFI)


1. Francis Bacon Study (Self-Portrait), 1976
2. Prada Fall/Winter 2013

Prada's Fall/Winter 2013 inhabitants are twisted bodies à la Francis Bacon. Dropped shoulders, twisted collars. Hanging down, letting loose. Layers of fabric, misplaced, distorted luxury. A motif that calls back the tablecloth pattern which interweaves the whole collection. The tablecloth as symbol of the commonplace, the rustic and homey, often accompanied by Dirndl shapes. Why? The ordinary is used as 'distortion' technique within Prada's multi-million luxury context.
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The Nude Portrait III x Portraits Of An Artist IV

category e.1) golden shower

1. Rick Owens Self-portrait, i-D Magazine 2002
2. Jürgen Teller Louis XV, 2005

category e.2) distorted body

3. Francis Bacon Study for self-portrait, 1976

category e.3) frontal poet

4. Don Herron Robert Mapplethorpe, 1978
5. Vinoodh Matadin Hans van Manen, 1986

category e.4) the couple


6. Gilbert & George Naked Suits, 1994
7. Jeff Koons Ponies, 1991

When two portrait series become one. The provocative, self-revealing depiction of nudity. Disarming every critic as there is nothing left to be exposed or taken away, the artist deletes the possibility of any scandal. Possibly, this is his most powerful creation.
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