Sam Taylor-Wood - Pieta (2001)

In the large video projection "Pietà," facing the desk at Matthew Marks Gallery, the artist Sam Taylor Wood labors to support the draped body of Robert Downey Jr. Why him, one might ask, and for that matter, why her? Why ask, is the likely reply. Taylor-Wood has appropriated widely in the past-from Atlas to Roman orgy scenes (updated to the present day) to Hollywood movies. Here, as elsewhere in her work, surface registers of emotion and physical distress take the place of narrative. The pietà becomes an icon of exhaustion and distress, in her hands. (http://www.artcritical.com/moylan/CMTaylorWood.htm)

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Film & Animation

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• video
• art
• sam
• taylor
• wood
• pieta

[LittleFiddlyBits]

Because we all needed another excuse to look at Robert Downey with his shirt off.

Oh, the sacrifices this poor woman makes for her art.

[tbf1023]

michelangelo pieta for 21st century, great!!!

[TehBrawler]

We studied this in an art class of mine, and I couldn't help but think, "SAY WHAAAAAAAT"

[yosoylolis]

@LittleFiddlyBits hahahahahahahaha

[Lobetta90]

wow

[Lobetta90]

wow