Steve Payne’s Painted Portraits
Steve Payne’s anachronistic portraits replace the heads of Napoleonic era Russian generals with those of celebrities. The pieces contrast historical ideas of status, power and wealth as well as the methods by which they are gained. Some of the portraits even invoke thoughts on socio-economic and racial differences. Payne uses digital manipulation to splice together modern-day, photographic pieces with the works of George Dawe (1781-1829), an English portraitist who, commissioned by the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, painted 329 portraits of Russian generals active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. Find out more about Payne’s project here.
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