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kARTyler |
Artwork and the L Word
Apr 4 2009, 4:25 AM EDT
| Post edited: Apr 4 2009, 4:28 AM EDT
I know this thread might seem a bit outdated, but I am an artist making queer art and always thought it was so great that the L Word featured art throughout the entire series. Recently, I was looking back to season one's artists in Bette's show at the CAC. After trying to get some artist references by watching, I soon realized that the artist "Isabelle Pernelle" that was getting screwed by Jesus (for lack of a better word) in episode 10 was actually not an artist. She was played by an actress named Carmen Aguirre. If she's not the real artist, than who's idea was it to make a piece of artwork like this? They also feature a S&M/B&D Christian martyr painting that consists of a bunch of gay men strapped in leather--what was the artists name who painted that? The intros in the newer seasons look as if they feature Catherine Opie's work (the photographs with bright yellow backgrounds and androgynous figures wearing mustaches), but now I'm not sure if they are hers or if they are just rip-offs of her originals. What I'm trying to ask here is, where are the REAL artists in the series? Are there any? If so, why aren't they featured in the credits at the end of each episode? If art was such a big part of Bette's character (and a microtheme to the entire series) during the the L Word, then why is it so undermined?
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lv79 |
1. RE: Artwork and the L Word
Aug 23 2009, 9:47 PM EDT
i think this is an interesting point. i live and work in los angeles, and am very involved with the contemporary art world. i've loved the show for it's entire run, but as a person who is art savvy, i found the use of contemporary art as character foil is cute but was usually purely fiction. for the most part i would say the art work shown on the show was probably a combination of half "real" art and probably half facsimile. the name dropped references in the show are also usually half real contemporary artists, and half made up. i would take it all with a grain of salt. i commend their writers for being mostly on point, but i've caught some information here and there that was not totally correct. just an fyi the "provocations" show at the fictional cac is based on many historic and controversial art exhibitions (namely of robert mapplethorpe's work) that happened in the late 80's and 90's. Do you find this valuable? |
