This compelling original acrylic painting showcases the brilliant portraiture practice of contemporary artist Manuel Santelices within his celebrated Art, culture & society collection. Executed with rich tactile acrylic paints on a heavy wooden panel matrix this unique masterwork serves as a powerful statement on modern media culture and identity. The composition centers a stylized black male figure with a piercing gaze and vivid crimson lips sharply juxtaposed against a radiant patterned hot pink background mimicking high-fashion editorial layouts and magazine aesthetics.
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
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Original Acrylic Painting - Pink Africa, 2019. By Manuel Santelices
Pink Africa, 2019
From the series Art, culture & society
Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 12 H x 9 W in.
Unframed
Santelices is a chilean artist and journalist living and working in New York for the last 20 years. After writing stories about style, design, art, and politics for a number of magazines, including the Spanish editions of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Esquire, and being a fashion writer in New York for Vogue Mexico and Latin American for 7 years.
