Elvis Presley portrait by Red Grooms, Face-to-Face talk
Publisher |
Smithsonian
Media Type |
video
Categories Via RSS |
Arts
History
Society & Culture
Visual Arts
Publication Date |
Apr 21, 2010
Episode Duration |
00:23:14
Warren Perry, curator of "Echoes of Elvis" discusses a portrait of Elvis Presley by Red Grooms
Warren Perry, curator of "Echoes of Elvis" discusses a portrait of Elvis Presley by Red Grooms. Red Grooms, like fellow Tennessean William Eggleston (whose work is also featured in the exhibition), has often memorialized Elvis in his art. In this image, he arms Elvis with his trademark flashy apparel and accompanying guitar, but a slightly closer observation will yield several other components of Elvis's iconographic ensemble-the lip curl, the slick, combed-back hair, the omnipresent Cadillac, Graceland, and the stylized stage posture. One of the famous gates of Graceland is swung open behind the entertainer while a woman in a red dress and black high heels observes the singer from the porch of the mansion. Grooms is to American art as Mark Twain is to American writing; he is the foremost humorist in his discipline. He is also a prolific artist who works in many media. Recorded at NPG, April 8, 2010. Image: Elvis Presley / Red Grooms (born 1937) / Lithograph, 1987 / Copyright 2010 Red Grooms / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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