Adrien Brody’s art is horrible. Why do people pretend not?

Adrien Brody is valued for his acting abilities: his Oscar-winning performance in last year’s film Barbarians It is a job that most actors can do once in their lifetime. However, last week he began to get inappropriate attention with his horrible art debut in New York at Eden Gallery, which, by any means, is one of the easiest to talk to the summer.

Artist Brody is now New York Times This positioned him as an artist worthy of consideration. nourish This week he praised him for instilling his art with the same “tilt intensity” as the performance interview The Q&A comes with an introduction, which says, “Damn everything you want, but there is a real market for these works.” (It seems like this is a suitable barometer of quality!) Probably refers to the paintings sold by Brody at the AMFAR Cannes dinner last month for $425,000.

Thankfully, the Art Press responded a little differently. Annie Armstrong Artnet News. fair enough. But, when I add brain drain, forgive me because I can’t stop thinking about how bad this art is.

The performance at the Garden of Eden Gallery is titled “Made in America,” which is a commentary on the painful experience of living in this country. Much of the view has obvious American pop culture icons – Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse, Maggie Simpson – Brody represents a range of paint stripes and collage materials, including stories that appear to be newspapers, advertisements and product labels.

Brody is working to turn modern rotary spins on patterns that can be recognized in 1960s pop art. A painting in the gallery is a replica of Andy Warhol Shooting Saint Marilyn Monroe (1964) Under the term “Xanax”, a reference to a patented drug in the United States after the actress died of a barbiturate overdose, is now prevalent as treatment for anxiety disorders. This is one of several paintings by Monroe on the show. Another work features her various texts, including some that highlight the use of the word “man” or “man,” presumably to suggest that a male stare robbed Monroe’s other.

Warhol’s Monroe’s paintings are pretty – a few blocks from Brody’s Eden, her portrait suit is in a golden field. Brody’s Monroe paintings, on the other hand, are ugly: their surfaces are torn apart, as if someone has grabbed the canvas. Warhol’s Monroes feel lush and Brody looks cheap and dirty.

One might argue that Brody means intentional summoning the mind décollage Paintings from the 1960s (the main artist in France) separate layered posters and advertisements to reveal the strata below, as if their canvases were as if the walls of urban buildings. However, it would give him too much praise because he was not Jacques Villeglé. If you look closely, you will notice that many of Brody’s prints are pixelated and of low quality. They appear to be printed from the internet, not distributed from the surrounding environment.

Thematically speaking, Brody’s work is not good. The cartoon characters’ pictures are as subtle as Sledgehammer, without attempting to add any nuance to his comments on the passionate massacre of America. A glib painting features a joyful McDuck, a man with two spears and an automatic weapon next to a skull. For some reason Brody provided a printed biography for Czech model Josef Ptacek, and was found in a painted brick wall with the word “nyc” on it.

Brody shows more interesting directions when she focuses on herself. There is a piece where a young Brody can be seen in the corner of a dirty alley of snakes and dogs, along with the poster CleanThis is an action movie of 2021, produced, produced and starred. This movie is a key commercial failure. The painting seems to suggest that the artist who made mistakes has re-spotted in difficult times of unfairness. In this case, considering Brody only won the Academy Award, there was no real meaning except that this way of thinking, and there was no reason to make him necessary to crown himself with the logo associated with Jean-Michel Basquiat.

The linkage of Brody-Basquiat, worth mentioning, becomes even more incredible here, a large painting that spells out Brody’s name in Basquiat’s handwriting. In addition to the shirtless image of Basquet, there is a bottle with the word “heroin”, a reference to the drug that Baschia himself abused. During his short career and afterwards, Basquet asked valuable questions about how Basquet could take advantage of Basquet. Should be posed again in Brody’s performance. I hope, at least, Brody licensed the photos of Basquiat.

Brody’s works raise the question with their artificial childish aesthetics and their mediocre production value: Why are we still talking about them?

One simple answer is that when celebrities reveal their art, it is often considered newsworthy. (See also: Hunter Biden, George W. Bush, Jim Carrey, Lucy Liu, and Co.) However, it seems not accidental, because it is often quite low to say that art is often. Fame tends to give some kind of halo to the person who receives it, and fans will always follow. If these paintings were almost anyone else, no one would think twice before doing it New York Times I won’t sprinkle too much ink, I won’t write this article.

Finally, I saved the worst gestures from Brody’s show. This is a wall co, where there are free packaging gum for consumption. (This is not a reference to the candy sculpture of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, or at least I think.) Visitors are invited to chew gum and then add it to Putty like a Brody painting, the word “violence.” The text on the wall reads: “Leave your mark – marriage, gut and anonymity.” Ironically, naturally, all visitors who attended do not know while Brody received all the honors.