He snubbed Andy Warhol, fell for himself in tennis whites and asked a trial artist to Mar-a-Lago to capture his likeness after the assassination bid … we take a tour of the new president’s taste in art
America does not just have a new president. It also has a new king of pop art: Andres Serrano. It was Serrano who foresaw that Trump would prove to be an American phenomenon of a totally new kind. In 2016, when I interviewed the creator of the notorious work Piss Christ, Trump was running for president. Serrano gave me a gift: a postcard-sized portrait of Trump looking strong and purposeful, if strangely waxy. Serrano had taken the photo, closeup. What was it saying? “I never speak ill of people who’ve posed for me,” he said, echoing Andy Warhol’s policy.
Serrano has since taken his interest to obsessive and spectacular heights by collecting Trump memorabilia at a personal cost of $200,000, ranging from a photo of Donald and Melania’s wedding cake to a deodorant called Success By Trump, and displaying it all in an art installation and book entitled The Game: All Things Trump. Where Warhol once silkscreened Marilyn Monroe and Jeff Koons made a porcelain statue of Michael Jackson, Serrano has had the perspicacity to acknowledge Trump’s charisma.
Continue reading… He snubbed Andy Warhol, fell for himself in tennis whites and asked a trial artist to Mar-a-Lago to capture his likeness after the assassination bid … we take a tour of the new president’s taste in artAmerica does not just have a new president. It also has a new king of pop art: Andres Serrano. It was Serrano who foresaw that Trump would prove to be an American phenomenon of a totally new kind. In 2016, when I interviewed the creator of the notorious work Piss Christ, Trump was running for president. Serrano gave me a gift: a postcard-sized portrait of Trump looking strong and purposeful, if strangely waxy. Serrano had taken the photo, closeup. What was it saying? “I never speak ill of people who’ve posed for me,” he said, echoing Andy Warhol’s policy.Serrano has since taken his interest to obsessive and spectacular heights by collecting Trump memorabilia at a personal cost of $200,000, ranging from a photo of Donald and Melania’s wedding cake to a deodorant called Success By Trump, and displaying it all in an art installation and book entitled The Game: All Things Trump. Where Warhol once silkscreened Marilyn Monroe and Jeff Koons made a porcelain statue of Michael Jackson, Serrano has had the perspicacity to acknowledge Trump’s charisma. Continue reading… Art, Donald Trump, Art and design, Andres Serrano, Collecting, Culture, Painting, Photography, Celebrity, Life and style