Björn Andrésen: The tragic story of the most beautiful boy in
WEBMay 13, 2021 · Above image: Still, Death in Venice by Luchino Visconti, 1971. Despite’s its lukewarm reception at the time of release, Death in Venice turned 15 year-old Swedish actor Björn Andrésen into an international icon of forbidden lust. Cast by Italian director Luchino Visconti as the film’s embodiment of beauty and temptation, the image took Andrésen hostage from then on, creating a cult ...
Louise Bourgeois: absent mothers, childhood trauma and Freudian ...
WEBMay 20, 2020 · Louise Bourgeois made art as a means of survival and confronting fear. One of the most unique and influential artists of the 20th century, her widely referenced work includes painting, printmaking and most famously sculpture. Regarded as a reluctant hero of feminist art, her pioneering work derived from lived experience as a …
Family ties: Bill Skarsgård in conversation with Stellan Skarsgård
WEBAug 17, 2016 · Here, Bill is interviewed by his dad, actor Stellan Skarsgård, in HERO 11. Interview taken from HERO 11. The Skarsgård Dynasty is formidable, relentlessly delivering stellar performers. But this is no easy formula; each Skarsgård is a beautifully mutated chip off the block, faceted with a primal instinct for unique delivery.
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“I like to really step outside of myself” – Emma Laird is ... - Hero
WEBNov 7, 2023 · Stylist Steve Morriss. In Mayor of Kingstown, Emma Laird announced herself as an actor with the ability to deeply affect those watching. As Iris, an escort caught up in a world of mob violence, the British actor shone, reflecting that delicate balance between strength and vulnerability inherent in us all, yet so difficult to authentically ...
Luis Buñuel: the master of surrealism, subversive dissent and …
WEBMay 30, 2020 · Belle de Jour by Luis Buñuel, 1967. Co-written with legendary French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière, Belle de Jour is an achingly beautiful story of erotic fantasy and sexual repression. Borrowing heavily from Freud, as he did throughout his career, Buñuel splices reality with dreams to highlight the hypocrisy of sexual politics.
Jenny Saville: the British painter challenging body norms with
WEBOct 6, 2021 · Jenny Saville. Prop, 1993. This approach is seen in the distorted proportions of Saville’s female sitters, who are almost always painted in oils or charcoal. With her customary full-frontal perspective, Saville deliberately transgresses against all conventional notions of beauty. Limbs appear swollen, stomachs enlarged and the thickly applied ...
Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud: the French cartoonist whose seminal ... - Hero
WEBJul 1, 2020 · In 1963, with a style that still closely resembled that of his mentor, Giraud created Fort Navajo with Belgian scriptwriter Jean-Michel Charlier. The immediate success of lead character Blueberry – a hard-nosed, cigarillo-chewing cowboy – led Giraud to create an entirely new comic, with Blueberry as its central titular character.
Keith Haring: street artist and AIDS activist who changed the
WEBAug 12, 2020 · New York, New York. Upon moving to New York in the late 70s, Haring began experimenting with chalk graffiti on the city’s subways, producing ephemeral works that could be washed away even quicker than they appeared. Working almost exclusively in white chalk, Haring drew on black sheets of paper stuck …
Outer Banks star Rudy Pankow charts the trajectory of his ... - Hero
WEBApr 21, 2023 · Outer Banks star Rudy Pankow charts the trajectory of his “comfort character” JJ Maybank. Stylist Sharon Chitrit. Netflix’s Outer Banks was at the epicentre of pandemic TV. First airing in 2020 at a time when the world stood still, viewers lived vicariously through a tight- knit group of local teens (the ‘Pogues’) on the hunt for ...