Wed, 03 January 2007 at 8:24 am

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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Posted to: Angelina Jolie, Celebrity Babies, Maddox Jolie Pitt, Shiloh Jolie Pitt, Zahara Jolie Pitt
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# 1

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 8:26 am

1st?

# 2

krdn @ 01/03/2007 at 8:27 am

2nd

# 3

Raine @ 01/03/2007 at 8:27 am

3rd….

# 4

ANUSTIN @ 01/03/2007 at 8:31 am

wer is wallmart?

# 5

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 8:34 am

ANUSTIN Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 8:31 am
wer is wallmart?

are you not from the US?? It’s the BdidGGdddeSdtd chain store here. and Cheap

# 6

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 8:35 am

What’s wrong w/me Biggest chain store

# 7

Anom @ 01/03/2007 at 8:46 am

I wish Brad and Angie would sue those people who keep using them and their children image to sell stuff. I mean Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are actors, but do these people need to use the kids like that.

# 8

Missouri Fan @ 01/03/2007 at 8:49 am

Keep voting…….. THE SEXY IS BACK!!!

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GOT TO GO . BYE!

Thanks ANUSTIN & Once in a while!! Ladies I count on YOU LOVE YOU ALL

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# 9

Grace @ 01/03/2007 at 8:53 am

Thanks for the new thread. Just voted….Angie is number one!!!

# 10

briseis @ 01/03/2007 at 8:54 am

I voted for that Hello Magazine Most Attractive Female, but how come no Brad or GC at the Most Attractive Male? Sheesh, I love Sean Bean and all (I swooned over his Odysseus in Troy) but most attractive male? I mean, who nominates the candidates for these polls?

# 11

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 8:55 am

where’s Brad

# 12

briseis @ 01/03/2007 at 8:57 am

Anom Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 am
I wish Brad and Angie would sue those people who keep using them and their children image to sell stuff. I mean Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are actors, but do these people need to use the kids like that.
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I have to agree. Brad and Angie chose their careers, but Madd, Zee and Shi are children (minors) so their image should not be included in every harebrained scheme people think of (like Madame Tussaud’s wax image of Shiloh, now this painting). I wonder if they can legally be stopped.

# 13

ANUSTIN @ 01/03/2007 at 8:57 am

meesh am from montreal!

# 14

My take @ 01/03/2007 at 8:58 am

Lovely!! Will travel to Miami to see the painting.

# 15

julia @ 01/03/2007 at 8:58 am

Oh my!! I can’t believe this. You’ve got to be kidding JJ. You need to get a life!Please she is so far from a saint. Why do you guys have her on this crazy pedastil.

# 16

LOVE @ 01/03/2007 at 9:02 am

Julia…are you illiterate??? Is not JJs painting…take your complaints to the creator and bug off!

I know angelina jolie is 100x better than YOU!

# 17

blogelina @ 01/03/2007 at 9:03 am

I love it except for the Wal Mart part. Wal mart is HELL. I shop there of course but only because, thanks to them, there is no place else to shop. I can remember a time when there were shopping choices. When everything wasn’t some cheap piece of lookalike WalMart stuff. Ughhhhhhhhhh.

Back to the picture, it doesn’t matter to me what it is suppose to mean because the picture is lovely. If I had enough talent I would paint it on my outbuilding instead of the uninspired crap that I did paint. Shiloh doesn’t have any angel wings but she should! Zahara looks especially cute with her little round face and pigtails.

# 18

krdn @ 01/03/2007 at 9:04 am

moi j’habite à paris =I live in paris!!!

# 19

marin @ 01/03/2007 at 9:07 am

I have to agree. Brad and Angie chose their careers, but Madd, Zee and Shi are children (minors) so their image should not be included in every harebrained scheme people think of (like Madame Tussaud’s wax image of Shiloh, now this painting). I wonder if they can legally be stopped.

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I tatally agree!!!! I`m sometimes warried!!!!!

# 20

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 9:08 am

ANUSTIN Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 8:57 am
meesh am from montreal!

I am from Rhode Island USA I can’t believe walmart isn’t up there, they are in every city somtimes 2, then they drive little stores out of business

briseis Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 8:57 am

they can’t do anything or else the wax museum would be out of business by now. remember they have one of Shiloh?

# 21

ANUSTIN @ 01/03/2007 at 9:09 am

TO JULIA!!kill yourself!and why are you here?trust me,BRAD will canonized her!

# 22

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 9:12 am

have you seen this? about Jolie w/french song by a poster here from tunisia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8MX92q8A4w

# 23

dragonfly @ 01/03/2007 at 9:17 am

Good Morning Ya’ll!

This painting is really bad taste. Really Bad. But hey, at least it isn’t a depiction of her giving birth on a bear skin rug…..so it could be worse.

Also, WM *is* hell. I do have to agree with this artist on that. I haven’t shopped in a WM in over 5 years and don’t intend to ever give them another penny of my money.

# 24

ANUSTIN @ 01/03/2007 at 9:17 am

krdn wer in paris?was in paris for 7 years….11 rue de l’abbe gregoire paris 6.near bon marche.

# 25

meesh! @ 01/03/2007 at 9:22 am

all right, you french speaking people can you tell me what some of the words say on that video? sounds pretty has belle in it!

# 26

Me Too @ 01/03/2007 at 9:23 am

To Missouri Fan, thanks for keeping up the momentum! I was sick when I initially saw the voting and now all is right with the world. I will keep voting too. If this wasn’t one of the more revered tabs in UK I wouldn’t care, but since Feline First is sharing the same media pond this one should be the balance!!!

# 27

briseis @ 01/03/2007 at 9:25 am

julia Says:

January 3rd, 2007 at 8:58 am
Oh my!! I can’t believe this. You’ve got to be kidding JJ. You need to get a life!Please she is so far from a saint. Why do you guys have her on this crazy pedastil.
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Julia:

Maybe before you have your fingers typing on your keyboard you should first know how to read and comprehend. This is NOT JJ’s painting, he is not putting her on a pedastil (sheesh, it should be pedestal, Julia!) AND HE SAID SO HIMSELF ON THE CAPTION. We BAMZSers are the last people to call her a saint, but we can’t help it if other people, like this artist, use their artistic license and deify her.

# 28

abigail @ 01/03/2007 at 9:25 am

I feel kinda weird about the painting. I guess everyone got a different outlook on art. Maybe the artist just want to start some sensation about her work. Hey,but if I have a million bucks & if the artist will sell them for charity…I WILL BUY THEM. Just for the Jolie-Pitt.

# 29

julia @ 01/03/2007 at 9:30 am

Did you guys see this?

The desertsun of Palm Springs is anouncing that Brad and Cate will attend theFilm Festival Awards Gala on Jan 6.
They are honorees with the rest of the Babel cast for a new Ensemble Performance Award.

just a few days away.. I wonder if Angelina will be there?

Thanks Jared for the new thread.

oh and and I see I have an evil namesake above, lol.. Not a very bright one either.

# 30

Amaya @ 01/03/2007 at 9:30 am

dragonfly,

ITA, that Britney sculpture is wrong in so many ways.

Speaking of Walmart, I used to have two guyfriends that wanted to live underneath the one that was in our town lol They had this elaborate plan that was really hilarious. Like the lighting would be a series of those “tap” lights and they were all controlled by one big/master tap light. Our walmart was next to a Burger King. So their plan was to have an underground tunnel that went from walmart directly to BK where they would steal food and leave the cups and wrappers in Walmart to frame BK workers lol They would spend their days stealing and destroying xboxs or other expensive things and leave them in most random sections of the store like the auto department. Also a selection floor tiles would be loosened so they make quick exits and personally, I was just reminded of the “Whack a Mole” game where the heads pop

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