Filed under: If Artist X painted Celebrity X, Nicole Richie
Austrian Expressionist painter Egon Schiele is best known for his haunting paintings of
solitary figures. His models often looked bored, uncomfortable,
somewhat hollow-eyed and tended to be bony thin. I think if he were
around today, he would chose Nicole Richie as one of his subjects. Medium: Charcoal, pastel and acrylic on paper stained with chai tea.
Posted by 14 ♦ April 26, 2006
At 11:41 am Janelle said:
I love your choice of medium.
April 26, 2006
At 12:17 pm Chris Tolomei said:
That’s why I’m here. I saw you mentioned in the NYTimes. Your work is fabulous but WHO are you?
April 26, 2006
At 12:17 pm DonnaJEM said:
Excellent 14, the chai tea makes for a nice eeriness.
Nicole has the cutest face, but when you see her from the neck down she really looks like she needs to be hooked up to an IV that feeds her a combination of trans fat and calcium.
April 26, 2006
At 12:51 pm Mike said:
Nice to see you’re getting recognition for your fine (and hilarious) work.
April 26, 2006
At 12:53 pm shannon said:
This has nothing to do with the Nicole Ritchie post, but I can’t find another way to make this request.
With the recent articles on Britney Spears (her 2nd pregnancy & wanting to hire a dr who suggested she not put baby sean on high things since he might roll off) please create another piece on her & her wacky life. I’m thinking something similar to your Tomrat & Katrat animal series, but on animals that eat their young or are equally poor parents.
April 26, 2006
At 1:54 pm This is so punk said:
Please please don’t stop painting the celebrity culture. You’re a genius.
April 26, 2006
At 1:57 pm Crees_dahl said:
PLEASE 14, PLEASE DON’T EVER STOP WHAT YOUR DOING! I don’t want to look at pictures designed to match my sofa! I come here to see what your wacky mind has conjured up and I am never dissapointed.
I aslo agree with Shannon. Britney Spears is due to be lampooned by you any day now.
April 26, 2006
At 2:43 pm 14 said:
AWWWW, you folks say the nicest things. Genius? HAR! Goofy is more like it.
I’ve got a nice little Brit and Kev animal portrait simmering on the easel right now. It will be featured in Animal Magazine and shown on my site in June.
14
mistress of the galactic owls
April 26, 2006
At 3:34 pm Devin said:
Kudos on the extra exposure you are garnering…NYT is a pretty grand platform! I have become almost obsessed with this site, I can’t even get my own work done; darn your awesome talents!! Thank you for the entertainment and inspiration to try different mediums other than Acrylics, you are an original for sure.
April 26, 2006
At 3:41 pm breezy said:
Nice… a proper pin-up girl. I love that skeletal figure; reminds me of Kentucky fried chicken… you can almost lick the bones, or is it “fingers”?
Sickly aspirations these stars of ours!
April 26, 2006
At 3:45 pm Deekay said:
Big up Yourself with the Times citing TomRat as a PopCulture high … you arent just the commentary … you are the culture. Yeah You!
April 26, 2006
At 4:55 pm Julie said:
so, my boyfriend is a terribly serious artistic type who has only lived in the US for a few years, refers to movies as films and finds my obsession with trashy tabloid gossip to be completely tacky and obscene. this morning i discovered that he added this site to his rss feeds after i showed it to him last week.
you are the greatest thing ever.
April 26, 2006
At 5:43 pm idj said:
14, I’ve been visiting your site for quite a while now, and I finally just have to comment that you have such a great eye for truth in an image and idea. Celebrity culture deserves your commentary. Please, please don’t quit! I really love your work (mind you, you’re a very talented artist, so landscapes and bowls of fruit would be just great, too, but would they put you in the NYT?) Cheers!
April 26, 2006
At 5:47 pm Andy said:
You are a delight 14.
April 26, 2006
At 7:11 pm Long Island Irish said:
LOL I love the spaced out expression in her eyes!
April 26, 2006
At 11:26 pm BlissBoo said:
I love Egon’s work. I viewed some of it in Austria. Talk about a tortured soul. Your work with Nicole is spot on. Sadly. I don’t even know how the girl can operate anymore, she looks really bad.
April 26, 2006
Katie
At 5:14 am Katie said:
Her elbow sticking out of her skin - a real high point for me.
Marvellous!
April 27, 2006
At 5:54 am Andrea said:
reminds me of what david spade said about her on his show, Nicole Ritchie is proof that humans can live for up to three years on attention alone…ain’t it the truth!
April 27, 2006
At 6:21 am Rix said:
Nice job and congrats on “defining” popular culture. Don’t stop drawing celebs, after all we have enough enuf pics of bowls of fruit. Not to mention that they are boooring.
PS: Sorry to quibble, but “chai” is Hindi for tea. So “chai tea” is in fact “tea tea”.
April 27, 2006
At 6:51 am midevil said:
Keep it up! Change? Pshaw. Why ruin a good thing!
April 27, 2006
At 7:59 am TheIdleReceptionist said:
WOW, Congrats on your NY Times mention!! That’s HUGE!!
And this Nicole Richie is brillllliant as always. I really enjoy it when you mimic famous painters because you catch the nuances of their works so well!!
And please, never stop painting George Clooney eating a hot dog. Never.
April 27, 2006
At 9:00 am morrigan said:
One cannot question that which inspires us in the arts, writing, or music. Don’t you quit on what makes you unique. Any artist can paint a landscape, but you make us giggle at the celebrities who need to be laughed at once in awhile.
Congrats on gettin’ your work noticed by NYT.
April 27, 2006
At 9:12 am sarah said:
i hope for more recognition for you! your work is beatiful and entertaining at the same time. congrats on the mention in the new york times! your artistic skills always amaze me, thanks for all fun!
April 27, 2006
At 10:06 am Israel said:
I didn’t know the nerdy dude from GhostBusters was a painter! Go Egon!
April 27, 2006
At 10:21 am Janina said:
OKay… It’s really scary how undeniably accurate this painting is; How her rib cage exceeds her breasts, her overly punctilious tendons, and her resemblence to a life-sized bobble headed doll. Beautiful girl but she’s got to start hanging out with Janet Jackson and put on a few pounds.
April 27, 2006
Anonymous
At 11:21 am Anonymous said:
this is absolutely beautiful
April 27, 2006
At 11:39 am Chansmom said:
Don’t go changin’! Heh. I love your work! Bowls of fruit, indeed.
April 27, 2006
At 12:46 pm Jen said:
I love your work! You’re an amazing talent, and you have hilarious, witty ideas for your work. I’d love to see you do something with Mariah Carey!
April 27, 2006
At 3:10 pm Paula Bayley said:
Regarding Ryan Seacreast and Paula Adul’s little spat…in the end it came down to her initally having a crush on him!!! How can you not….he is sooooo appealing!! Go get him Paula!!
April 27, 2006
At 4:24 pm Karen Rani said:
Congrats on the fab mention in the NYT dah-ling. You are so talented, as I’ve told you before. Keep up whatever makes you happy!
April 27, 2006
Davehater
At 4:37 pm Davehater said:
She looks fat to me.
April 27, 2006
At 5:38 pm Dawn (webmiztris) said:
you sure that’s not a photograph of her? I can’t tell the difference…
April 27, 2006
Damien
At 7:28 pm Damien said:
Bella such skill. You cannot stop drawing and painting Nicole and her cohorts, were else could I find my celeb trashing fix…alas.
April 27, 2006
At 10:46 pm Viper Tetsu said:
The New York Times?! Hot-CHA!! You rock like Bon Scott-era AC/DC on Space Mountain, chica.
In case the loud hosannas from the rest of the Fourteen Cult Throng haven’t hammered this home by now, what you’re doing is as (ulp, dare I say it?) important as it is funny. If Jonathan Swift and Dorothy Parker were alive today they’d be sticking their quills into the eyes of the same vapid celebs who receive your paint-and-ink skewers. They turned snark into art…kinda like someone else we know.
Plus, Swift, Parker, and their literary progeny were pee-your-pants funny. Again, kinda like someone else we know.
Mega-bonus points for somehow managing to inject several dollops of art history into the wackiness. If your fabulous forays into Schiele/Lichtenstein/Dali-inspired spoofery have induced one art neophyte to explore the links you’ve provided to your artistic forebears, then you’ve singlehandedly justified the existance of Nicole Richie AND Britney Spears.
Which makes you, officially and unequivocably, God.
April 27, 2006
At 4:32 am Nia said:
No no no!
Please never stop celebrity painting!
My levels of joy might never recover!
April 28, 2006
At 7:26 am Moonmaid said:
14, your work entertains and amuses us all.
Remember the scene in Preston Sturges’ Sullivan’s Travels, in which Joel McCrea watches the chain gang inmates laughing at a comedy film, and realizes that providing laughter to the public is not meaningless, but essential?
Well remember that the next time you think your work is not high art.
Besides, you can find those serious “Sprockets” type artists in any East Village coffee bar. Dime a dozen.
April 28, 2006
At 9:16 am Ken said:
I am glad you’re getting the free publicity. The whole world should know of your genius! And given the state of our culture, I have no doubt that one day Tom Cruise and Angelina Jolie will be commissioning you to paint them in the portrait of your choosing, just to show that they’re in on the joke.
April 28, 2006
At 9:39 am Bragan said:
Congrats, 14! You deserve your 15 minutes of fame and more.
April 28, 2006
Penname
At 2:30 pm Penname said:
Your signature is really cool.
April 28, 2006
At 5:51 pm Pop Fantastic said:
I really like the color scheme for the portrait. It is (as always) such a great pic that caputres that celeb so well. And congrats on the NYTimes mention!
April 28, 2006
At 6:49 pm Mel said:
You are an artistic GENIUS!!!!!!
April 28, 2006
At 11:30 pm Demon Kitty said:
I just know you are going to be fucking famous 14! Please don’t stop painting trashy gossip inspired caricatures! Your site has brought me so much joy! Good art is good for the soul!
I am so sick of looking at this malnourished unattractive woman! I hate to say it but she looks like she has a terminal disease and is wasting away- well, it is a terminal disease.
So Much love,
Demon Kitty
April 28, 2006
mabster60
At 6:00 pm mabster60 said:
Schiele’s paintings seemed like premonitions of the coming wars: skeletal bodies, dreary backrounds. I wonder if Ms Richie has any concept of how much her self-imposed starvation reminds people of the Holocaust?
Your work is excellent, btw. Stay acid, kid.
April 29, 2006
tricia
At 10:03 am tricia said:
Hey you, congrats on your Times mention, it’s brilliant that you were cited.
And this one—wow. From Dali to Schiele, and you can do Picasso, too. This is amazing. NR has the strangest eyes, they’re very large and needy, and you captured that. Why the hell do these skeletal chicks *always* say they’ve always been skinny or have a fast metabolism, when everyone knows better? NR used to be cute and approachable, in contrast to Miss Hilton, and now…well, whatever. Too small for size 0.
May 1, 2006
At 2:20 pm gemidevi said:
Awesome news about the very descriptive mention in NYT!! I am a long time fan, rare noter. You are great! Take care!
May 1, 2006
arb
At 8:11 am arb said:
just tripped onto your site from a friend’s recommendation. the egon painting is the best possible 1st peak. love him. love the painting. love the blog.
May 2, 2006
At 10:24 am Tess said:
You richly deserve the praise.
Congrats,14. A job well done.
May 2, 2006
At 1:39 pm Pink Armadillo said:
Don’t ever stop! Satire is incredibly important to society and your paintings/drawings are hilarious as well as incredibly well done. You deserve a lot of recognition. Congratulations!
May 2, 2006
Anonymous
At 7:30 pm Anonymous said:
TO Penname | April 28, 2006 at 02:30 PM
That is how egon schiele signs all his paintings.
May 2, 2006
Fug.
At 6:20 am Fug. said:
Nice work 14, & don’t give up, alot of people here love your art!
May 3, 2006
At 9:49 am spookyrach said:
This scared the crap outta me. ME!
May 3, 2006
arb
At 9:00 am arb said:
i posted about this already, but i am continually drawn to the image. i realize this may not have been the intention, but the the subject acutally looks beautifully rendered. not that i luv anorexic/bulimic-sized women, but she looks amazing. i am a fan of egon’s portraits of prostitutes, so that may be it. i like the style.
May 4, 2006
At 5:57 pm crimsonic said:
This is utterly amazing - I love it. I hope you make lots and lots of money with your artwork.
May 4, 2006
At 1:36 am Cheezwiz said:
Congrats on your NYT mention!! Add me to the chorus of those begging you to keep going. Being a trashy gossip hound, I check your site obsessively. Since I’m also an aspiring illustrator, your work is a big inspiration - I love your imaginative ideas & the way you render your subjects!
Maybe you could do something on the current Heather Locklear - Denise Richards spat?
May 5, 2006
At 9:45 am Tamara said:
I’m a Schiele fan. I just saw a bunch of his work in Vienna. You did an amazing job transferring his creeparific style to Richie’s gaunt modern look.
You really know your art, girl!!!
May 5, 2006
amiele
At 9:56 pm amiele said:
I just discovered this site today, awesome work, I’m glad to see a schiele inspired work!
May 17, 2006
At 10:34 pm Onch said:
totally rockin!!!
love what you have doing….
check out my concept jewelry
hope you like it
onch
May 18, 2006
At 3:16 pm farmerbob said:
Fuck yeah 14! You rule the universe!!
May 23, 2006
At 11:59 pm m said:
why do you have a klimt painting portrayed when clicking on “paintings”…I thought you were talking about Schiele?
June 19, 2006
At 6:24 am MJB said:
You do hysterical work. Most of these celebrities are whackadoos and you bring out the obvious in them. And you are quite a talented artist. Please do one on Tori Spelling (she is such a beast inside and out. A self-centered man-stealing tart.) and Dean McDermott. After her hideous comments about his ex-wife at the recent MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto, she deserves a place on your website. He’s a dirtbag too, and they well deserve each other. To Mary Jo Eustace, Tori Spelling did you the biggest favor in the world. Now he’s HER problem and she’s HIS problem.
June 20, 2006
At 9:37 am RUBEN said:
I’m not only in love with Nicole Richie, and a tabloid reading drone but I also have a large interest in artwork. Your artwork is not only inspiring but it is very well-done. Congratulations on the great work. It’s breath-taking!
January 16, 2007