"Bernstein’s bold covers helped define the visual identity of the disco era in all of its glory. He achieved these idealized portraits by doctoring photographs from some of the best photographers in the world such as Albert Watson, Herb Ritts, Matthew Rolston, and Greg Gorman. After serving as an art director, and often the photographer, on a shoot, he’d apply collaged elements, gouache, colored pencil, and pastel to the portrait to achieve his signature alluring aesthetic. Puffs of airbrush gave his subjects otherworldly auras and the dewy glow of eternal youth, turning iconic subjects into dazzling graphics.

Richard Bernstein enhanced their best qualities, sometimes seeming to foresee their futures in the process. In his hands, hundreds of subjects were turned into pop deities."
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#RichardBernstein
https://www.thecollector.com/richard-bernstein-starmaker-of-pop-art/

"He was first and foremost a pop artist and elevated commercial work to the levels of Fine Art."
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https://lapalmemagazine.com/2018/10/starmaker/

“Bernstein’s faces are wonderful,” Andy Warhol once gushed of the dewy, glamorized portraits Bernstein crafted in his Chelsea Hotel studio. “He makes everyone look so famous.”

“He puts wit into the beauties, fantasy into the rich, depth into the glamorous and adds instant patina to newcomers.”
- Paloma Picasso

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-forgotten-legacy-richard-bernstein-andy-warhols-favorite-artist
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"Bernstein started with the photographic layer and worked up from there, using airbrush, gouache, pencil, and collage to create his ideals. Warhol made the famous look like they never existed. Bernstein made his subjects appear as if they had just been pulled out of a vaguely pornographic ad campaign for Austrian cookies, all putti blush and lollipop eyes."
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https://www.artforum.com/print/reviews/201810/richard-bernstein-77788

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http://www.norncutson.com/

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http://www.norncutson.com/

@derekgottlieb

Thank you for linking to Jordi Graupera's uplifting tribute to philosopher #RichardBernstein. Amazing how Bernstein continued his Arendt seminar from his hospital bed ---- and brought in the nurses as participants. And humbling to realise his generosity toward so many disparate traditions.

I know I am getting carried away, but I find that on simpler matters, discussion here on Mastodon often exhibits the same joy in the encounter with the other. Not always, but on a good day.

"If philosophy proved anything, Bernstein believed, it was that things are never fixed, and our conversation never ends."

#RichardBernstein #Philosophy #TheGreatConversation

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/a-philosophy-professors-final-class