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On Jason Salavon's beautiful abstracted nudes...

Posted November 4, 2003 12:20 AM.

Half-Klimt (one, two, three), half-Rothko (one, two, three) - I know they've been everywhere, but they're so bloody beautiful: Every Playboy Centrefold: The Decades. There's something so elusive and gestural about them - and the traces of writing and iconography lingering around the bodies just makes the whole thing seem even less to do with flesh and still more numinous.

The same artist achieved similar effects with a triptych of stills of late night chat-show presenters and used the same process on images of homes for sale, which is equally breath-taking.

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Please stay on-topic, informative and polite. I reserve the right to remove comments for whatever vague capricious reasons seem reasonable at the time.

You know that site hosting the Playboy pictures is just asking for a lawsuit from Heff's lawyers.

Posted by: Jake of 8bitjoystick.com at November 4, 2003 12:24 AM

Fuzzy houses and late night trash show ok but messing with Playboy babes is a mean thing to do.

Posted by: fred l at November 4, 2003 12:39 AM

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