I Always Reveal Too Much

I Always Reveal Too Much or L’INVITATION AU VOYAGE [Duparc/Baudelaire]

2010

24×28

Oil on linen

Painting Notes:

1/ Bruegel: Dulle Griet, c. 1562.

2/ A purported Jack Pollock fingerprint on a stretcher. The Mark of a Masterpiece

The man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.

by David Grann  New Yorker August 7, 2010

3/ Leonardo? : La Bella Principessa, above.

4/ Robert Wilcox [The Copperhead], Tom Steele [The Robot]: Mysterious Dr. Satan, 1940.

5/ Nicolas Poussin: A Dance to the Music of Time.

6/ Miley Cyrus.

7/ Gaga Garb.

8/ The Pollet brothers

9/ Lénard, Oillic, Thépaut and Carbucci (1866), Abel Pollet (1909)

10/ Isaac Hoffmeister: Helmeted Head, c. 2009.

11/ Anne Francis, Frankie Darro [Robby]: The Forbidden Planet, 1956.

12/ Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. In 2000 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

13/ Angel Di Stefani [Popoca the Mummy]. The Robot is uncredited: La momia azteca contra el robot humano, 1958.

14/  Bengt Ekerot: The Seventh Seal, 1957.

15/  Thomas Eakins: The Agnew Clinic, 1889.

16/  Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta (born March 28, 1986), better known by her stage name Lady Gaga.

17/ Diego Velazquez: The Rokeby Venus; 1647-1651.

18/ Charlize Theron: Vogue, September, 2009.

19/ Peter Lorre, Inge Landgut: M, 1931.

20/ Nyoka the Jungle Girl: Conk!.

21/ Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O’ Sullivan: Tarzan, the Ape Man, 1932.

22/ Francois Boucher: La Toilette, 1742.

23/ Nyoka the Jungle Girl. Nyoka first appeared in two Bijou serials by Republic in 1941 starring Frances Gifford and later Kay Aldridge. Each of the two serials was a total of 15 episodes. Menaced by Eduardo Cianelli on loan from the Mysterious Doctor Satan

Doctor Satan (as Edward Ciannelli)

24/ Catherine Deneuve: Belle de Jour, 1967.

25/ Paul Cezanne: Apples and Biscuits, 1879-80.

26/ Brigette Bardot: Cette Sacree Gamine, 1955.

27/ See 23.

28/ Lizabeth Scott: Too Late for Tears, 1949.

29/ Christopher Lee: The Satanic Rites of Dracula [UK title], 1973, 1974.

30/ Janet Leigh: Psycho, 1960.

31/ See 13.

32/ This Island Earth, 1955.

33/ Dustin Hoffman: Little Big Man, 1970.

34/ Shirley Anne Field: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, 1961.

35/ A late-1950s New York minute: clockwise from far right, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso (in cap), the painter Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac and the musician David Amram.

36/ Thomas Eakins: Self Portrait, 1902.

37/ Larry Rivers with his daughter Emma, c. 1981. The archives of the proto-Pop artist Larry Rivers, who died in 2002, will arrive at New York University in a few weeks, filled with correspondence and other documents that depict his relationships with artists like Willem de Kooning and Andy Warhol and writers like Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery. But one part of the archive, which was purchased from the Larry Rivers Foundation for an undisclosed price, includes films and videos of his two adolescent daughters, naked or topless, being interviewed by their father about their developing breasts. One daughter, who said she was pressured to participate, beginning when she was 11, is demanding that the material be removed from the archive and returned to her and her sister.

38/ Angelina Jolie: Salt, 2010.

39/ Robert Mitchum: The Night of the Hunter, 1955.

40/   Julia Adams and Ricou Browning: The Creature from the Black Lagoon, 1954.

41/ Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren: El Cid, 1961.

42/ The Rocky Horror Show, 1976.

43/ Henry Fuseli: Ariel, 1800-10.

44/ Anon.: Caught in the Act, La Paree Stories, September, 1933.

45/ Anon.: Cupid’s Capers, October, 1933.

46/ Maxfield Parrish: Dream Castle in the Sky, 1908.

47/ Hubley P-38, c. 1950.

48/ Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts composition class, c. 1893.

49/ See 23.

50/ Alfred Eisenstadt: Girdles for the Fuller Figure, 1937.

51/ Catherine Deneuve: Repulsion, 1965.

52/ Rebecca Rosa Hoffmeister: Grandpop, 2010. Note the artist is wearing an artistic pencil mustache and has just discarded a Gauloises.