Digg it!You may have some doubts about their talents as actors or singers but once you see their paintings, you have to admit these are some pretty deep shit.
Below are some celebrities who literally get their hands dirty in creating some of the best art pieces you will ever see in your life.
These celebrities are the ones who actually sell their painting. Well, none of them keep the profit. They just give it to charities but the criteria remains, they have to sell their paintings. Many other artists paint but they don’t sell their works.
10. Viggo Mortensen
Viggo: They are often painted over, written over, sanded, rewritten, crossed out, re-painted, re-sanded, re-written, etc.”
The ones you see on the photo are the ones he has recently sold.
He is also a poet and a photographer.
9. Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Stallone is generating some buzz when his two paintings sold for $90,000 (see above).
He launched his first exhibit with Zurich-based Gmurzynska Gallery, including a rough rendering of a decrepit, aging superhero. Painted in his post-Rocky V phase, “Toxic Superman” is the first one that he sold.
Stallone: “Toxic Superman” is about the ups and downs of Hollywood. The US working male is a dying breed.
8. Lucy Liu
Who wants to see Lucy down and dirty doing her art? Take a number. Those paintings are hot.
Lucy Liu was appointed U.S. Fund for UNICEF Ambassador in 2005 for their HIV/AIDS awareness and education programs.
In September 2006, Lucy Liu’s fourth art exhibition, “Glass Onion,” was on view at the Milk Gallery in New York City. Lucy’s original works of art were then sold at auction—raising over $267,000—to benefit UNICEF.
7. Mike Shinoda
Mike Shinoda has not only sold more than 75 million records, he has also launched an art novel all his own. Among everyone in this list, he is probably the most commercially successful painter.
In 2008, he launched Glorious Excess (Born). A series of paintings telling the story of society’s obsession with celebrity culture, consumer addiction, and fascination with excess. It was so fuckin’ successful, he followed it up with a larger, broader, and more sensational than before, Glorious Excess (Dies).
His Glorious Excess works follow a skeletal central figure’s rise to fame in the nine works created for (Born), and the character’s fall in the 17 works produced for (Dies).
Proceeds go to Music For Relief.
6. Anthony Hopkins
As per The Guardian: From gentle pastoral scenes to nightmarish figurative portraits, paintings by actor and director Anthony Hopkins look set to cause a stir when they arrive in London next month for the first British exhibition of his works. ‘What you’re observing is my state of mind,’ he explains to the Guardian’s Simon Hattenstone. See for yourself what state he’s in.
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You forgot Paul Stanley of KISS.
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