Word: portraited
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...aspect was the shameless shilling. Presenters like MACY GRAY, right, Busta Rhymes, Shakira and others were more interested in the "Song of Myself," relentlessly hawking their new releases. At least Missy Elliott (lowered from the ceiling via chandelier) had the grace to remember the singer Aaliyah with an airbrushed portrait on the back of her white leather jacket. Across the backside of Macy Gray's getup...
...giant black slab. She's gracious, enthusiastic and cultivated. No slab in our experience has anything like her laugh, which is the musical kind you might expect from a woman born in Baton Rouge, La., one whose taste is stately enough to embrace the 19th century Japanese camera portrait but frisky enough to approve paparazzi shots from the Rome of La Dolce Vita. All the same, she's forceful when she needs to be and cunning when the occasion calls for it. When your job requires you to borrow pictures from collectors who might hate to let them...
What emerges definitively is a portrait of a deeply disturbed, incredibly talented individual who deliberately planned every step of his musical career—a far cry from the ethos of the musical genre of which he was emblematic and more distant still from the sad tale of Vicious, a “tough street kid” who truly saw punk rock as a cathartic respite from his unhappy life...
Much of Udé’s exhibit centers around the self portrait, as Udé, a Nigerian transvestite who describes himself as being educated by the night club scene of the 1980s, splashes his elaborately made-up face across mock-ups of movie posters and covers of famous magazines. The utilization of such staples of modern pop culture forces the observer to perceive the publications as independent works of art, modified by Ud?...
Udé also utilizes the self-portrait in the “He Series,” a collection of three photographs of Udé assuming provocative poses in full costume and makeup against a stark white background. Udé’s hair is teased into a bouffant, and his eyes and cheeks are painted in a dramatic rainbow of hues, producing an overall appearance in which Udé appears to be channeling Diana Ross...