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Angelina Jolie Reaches Sainthood

Angelina Jolie Reaches Sainthood

What would Angelina Jolie and her children — Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh — look like depicted as saints, virgins, and cherubs? Kate worked out her own depiction of them on an 88′ x 60″ oil & acrylic on linen in a painting called “Blessed Art Thou.” Here’s how she describes the painting:

This painting addresses the celebrity worship cycle. The title, “Blessed Art Thou”, is taken from a line in the Catholic prayer “Hail Mary”: “…blessed art thou among women”. Our culture is deifying celebrities, but in the bible, it is the meek who are blessed, so the title presents a question for the viewer to ponder.

I chose a setting where the cycle begins: psychologically oppressive environments like this one are the source for the consumer, hungry for “information” about the celebrity. I am interested in the psychological ramifications of celebrity worship, particularly as they relate to class.

Angelina Jolie was chosen as the subject because of her unavoidable presence in the media, the world-wide anticipation of her child, her “unattainable” beauty and the good that she is doing in the world through her example, which adds another layer to the complicated questions about her “deification”.

The “Virgin” and Zahara figures are loosely based on a Van Dyck Virgin painting, and the Maddox figure’s pose is borrowed from a Raphael painting.

The artwork will be on display at the Chelsea Galleria booth at the Art Miami Fair at the Miami Beach Convention Center, January 5-8th. Kate will be at the fair Friday & Saturday.

Click on the thumbnails below for more detail. Wal-Mart is depicted as… hell.

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I just watched Oprah on the Tmz’ Extra clip. She stood up for what she believes in, inspite of the possibility of going against her fan base. She did not bash B&A to please the Aniston fans. I like Oprah more and more.

Alexanderina @ 01/03/2007 at 2:55 pm

gitane Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Alexanderina

work is hectic. i’ve got a lot to catch up on and a wedding show saturday. that’s why i’m having lunch at my desk today.

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awwww you are one busy woman my sista. Btw do a lot of people get marry in January? I thought January would be a slow month for weddings. And like you I will be having lunch at my desk today and for the rest of the week as well

How old are you?

meesh! Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 1:49 pm
gotta go…boss is here Bye Bye For Now

once in a while @ 01/03/2007 at 2:56 pm

TAFTOUFA! Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
hello!meesh expain about AIM cuz i downloaded it and i dont know why the connexion doesnt work!!!do you have MSN?
for the one who told me about frensh videos:merci beaucoup de m’avoir soutenu pour ce que j’ai fais ,ça fait plaisir en fait lol!je vous tiendrais au courant des que je ferais une nouvelle video!
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I am looking forward to your french songs BAMZS music video at youtube.
Thanks.

gettingbored Says:
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:48 pm

This proves the point the point of the painting. This is fanatical worship.

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I’m not worshiping Angelina, I just like her as an actor/entertainer.

Alexanderina

no, january is a slow wedding month. at least around here. i’ve got to catch up on all of the end of the year b.s., reconcile accounts, etc. etc. the good thing about going on vacation is that your brain starts working again. the bad thing is that when you get back to work, you instantly get overwhelmed again.

i’m glad your temp did a good job. when i was doing temp work, everyone was surprised that i was actually good. apparently there are a lot of lousy temps in the work force.

you’ve GOT to be kidding me — weird, Weird, WEIRD!

wal mart shopper fan club @ 01/03/2007 at 3:07 pm

HAHAHAH !!!! Above all the WAL MART WOMEN !!!!!!!!!! THE BARNGELINA FAN CLUB : http://tinyurl.com/y24hmq !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE SAINT OF FAT JUNK FOOD WOMEN !!!!!!!!!!!! HAHHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Original jpf @ 01/03/2007 at 3:14 pm

wal mart shopper fan club Says: January 3rd, 2007 at 3:07 pm

HAHAHAH !!!! Above all the WAL MART WOMEN !!!!!!!!!! THE BARNGELINA FAN CLUB : http://tinyurl.com/y24hmq !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LMAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE SAINT OF FAT JUNK FOOD WOMEN !!!!!!!!!!!! HAHHAHAHAHA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Thank you for the link because I lost the picture. Personally I love it. I think it’s an amazing snapshot of Angelina’s spirit and shows what I consider her enviable sense of freedom.

jpf

ALL HAIL QUEEN OKRA @ 01/03/2007 at 3:14 pm

Praise Jesus. Queen Mother Oprah has given her approval to Brad and Angelina. Phew! Now I can breath easily. What would Brad and Angelina ever do without Ms. Oprah’s approval. Thank God, Oprah spoke out, I’ve been waiting all this time for her to give her stamp of approval. I guess Brad and Angelina can’t finally stop worrying.

TAFTOUFA! @ 01/03/2007 at 3:15 pm

once in a while Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 2:56 pm
TAFTOUFA! Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
hello!meesh expain about AIM cuz i downloaded it and i dont know why the connexion doesnt work!!!do you have MSN?
for the one who told me about frensh videos:merci beaucoup de m’avoir soutenu pour ce que j’ai fais ,ça fait plaisir en fait lol!je vous tiendrais au courant des que je ferais une nouvelle video!
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I am looking forward to your french songs BAMZS music video at youtube.
Thanks.
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hi!i made only one!but i’ll make other videos and i’ll do u a sign!!!!:)

To walmart shopper….. That pic is beastiality - sad and disgusting same as all the other sick porn including child pornography. This woman is in bad need of attention to pose like this - and…. this mentality does not clear up in a couple of years after a few trips to visit orphans - it just gets buried. The thoughts are still there and the guilt and overcompensation in other areas takes over but does not eliminate the basic self that thinks this way.

the reason you loonies hate this picture is because it hits just a little too close to home. Most of you either are that woman in line at wal-mart lusting after angelina’s life or you can’t possibly understand the irony of this picture. It’s 100% spot on.

regarding Walmart, they do have good price. but i dont shop there, cos i dont believe in driving far away just to get a few things.

i do buy the walmart stock. it’s been doing well. i’ve always tried to keep up with financial news. recently they come out with this $4 generic drug (the most common drug which many people use), with that plan from walmart, now many of the drug store chains are forced to come up with similar low price plan. i think it’s good when there is competition.

Does anyone know if a movie star get paid, with the picture on the front of magazine like VF, vogue, etc????

horse sex doesn’t make for a happy healthy well adjusted family. It’s a bit bizarre at the least. Isn’t bestiality illegal ?

wowgross Says:

omg you think angelina posed for this painting? lol. You crazy.

dragonfly @ 01/03/2007 at 3:23 pm

Chanel Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 11:54 am
Wal-Mart is not hell. Thanks to the Walton family many people including myself are saving lots of money on things that we must have for our family’s.
I shop at Wal-Mart at least 3 times a week.

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You are far too short-sighted. WM is a major kog in the wheel of what is wrong with the economy. It is killing small business and small-town America, which is what built this country. When you go into a WM all you hear is a great sucking sound, because, #1, they literally *do* suck, and #2, the other is the sound of American jobs being sucked overseas to sweatshops full of child/slave labor. WM and other business like it (of which WM is by far the worst) have forced American manufacturers to send operations overseas or go out of business. As a result we now have inferiorly made products and practically no manufacturing jobs left within our own borders.

How is WM to blame, you ask? Well sit back cuz I’m gonna tell you why they are bad and you shouldn’t shop there.

In the 1940’s-1960’s a man without a college degree could get a job in local manufacturing plant, say, making tools. He wouldn’t get rich, but he could raise and support a family on his wages, he would have health insurance, and his wife didn’t need to work.

In the 1970’s-1980’s WM was a company that prided itself on selling American-made products. Remember the commericials? Made in the USA? Well at the time, it was true.

As WM became bigger and bigger, many US manufacturing plants, such as the one that made tools where our friend at the beginning of this story, found themselves making a good profit and expanding becasue they were selling LOTS of tools to discount chains. So much so, that a very large percentage od what the tool comapny is making is being sold to WM….. well, that’s all fine and dandy EXCEPT once WM had a company over a barrel, say, 40-60% of their goods being sold to WM, that’s when WM says, to them, “We’re not pay you full price for your tools anymore. We want it cheaper!”

So the company has to trim somewhere. They lay people off. Then WM demands again, “We want your goods cheaper still!” Well, with that much of their business being sold to WM, the comapny knows if they say no that they will go out of business all together. So… they lay more people off, they cut corners on supplies, etc…

This continues on and on until the company moves it operations overseas where the labor is cheaper and they can still sell their goods to WM and still make a profit.

Where does this put the American worker?

Ever wonder why there are no more factories, sewing plants, or foundries in your town? I challenge you to go into a WM and find anything American-made today. Maybe 10% of their goods. Maybe.

That’s why.

All because people can’t stay their butts out of WM.

WM has people fooled that they are your friend, and they are helping you save so much money.

Bull.

What good are cheap prices if there are no jobs? Oh yeah…. you could work at WM I suppose. That plays right into their hands. Pathetic.

They blow into town and put every local hardware store, drug store, dress shop, etc, out of business. Everything that is wonderful about small-town America is being crushed under the heel of WM. Their can’t buy their goods from the manufacturer as cheap as WM can, so naturally their prices are higher. I will drive further and pay more, just to keep a local in business. WM can kiss my a$$. I hate them with a passion.

I actually save money now that I DON’T shop there, becasue I don’t buy a whole lotta mess I don’t need.

No amount of money will ever be enough for this company. They are greedy.

And don’t tell me that they provide jobs, either. Sure, c-r-a-p jobs with no benefits that nobody can live on.

All so people can have lots and lots of cheap, plastic junk that is only going to wind up as next year’s garage sale fodder.

Selling out for short-term benefit, unable to see the big picture and the long-term cost to us all. Yep. The WM way, alright.

Did I say I hate them?

to all BAMZS fans –

please stop discussing about this artwork, enough is enough

Just Jared Fan @ 01/03/2007 at 3:24 pm

I like it, I think AJ is one of the most inrtusting woman on the planet I like the fact it shows her soft loving side with her little angels withwhom she adores more than life

wowgross Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 3:18 pm
To walmart shopper….. That pic is beastiality - sad and disgusting same as all the other sick porn including child pornography. This woman is in bad need of attention to pose like this - and…. this mentality does not clear up in a couple of years after a few trips to visit orphans - it just gets buried. The thoughts are still there and the guilt and overcompensation in other areas takes over but does not eliminate the basic self that thinks this way.
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Le’ts clarigy–Angelina did not pose for this. Pictures of her and her children are readily available and an artist does not need them to “sit” for this painting to depit them.

Beastility? I don’t see any animals in the painting! By the way, just because there is nudity does not mean its pornography. Ever seen Michelangelo’s David?

new thread!!!!!!!!!!!

WALMART kills small businesses and radically alters the culture of small town America

Keep voting! @ 01/03/2007 at 3:28 pm

NEW THREAD!

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