Saturday, October 24, 2015
Katherine Bernhardt at Venus Over Manhattan
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Brands often contractually stipulate distance their logos must remain from other images, exemplified in the grid structure of red carpet backdrops, giving not only clarity, but purity, singularity to the brand. And separatists like Matisse giving the studio a red that was particular, exceptional. Bernhardt always was invested in the advertorial, painting the magazine spread, and here this is use, rather than reflection, of the advertorial model is in the assaulting declarative of product, effusing their objects with the seductive quality of being visually held.