Tag: Tubshots

• Straight to Hell — Mapplethorpe in triptych (warning: x-rated in parts).

  STRAIGHT TO HELL — MAPPLETHORPE IN TRIPTYCH. I decided that it was best to depict Mapplethorpe in an Expressionist style – and almost like a charcoal and chalk painting. This because the style fits the era when he was growing up, but also to convey technique-wise the brutal simplicity of his art photography. His photographic portraits…

  Adam Donaldson Powell

  August 20, 2018

  abstract figurative paintings, Don Herron, Robert Mapplethorpe

  abstract figurative paintings, Don Herron, MAPPLETHORPE: an early “influencer” and male cover-girl, painting in progress, Robert Mapplethorpe, Straight to Hell, Tubshots