THE LONG TRADITION OF PORTRAIT IN ART HISTORY

«I got started on these portraits thinking of Andy's commissioned work» [Robert] Wilson says as well as those of classical portraitists like John Singer Sargeant. «But whereas Warhol's working motto was «fast easy cheap and modern» Wilson 's approach is slow, difficult, expensive and replete with historical references...He posed ballet star Mikhail Baryshnikov as Saint Sebastien, French actress jeanne Moreau as mary Queen of Scots and princess Caroline of Monaco as Sargeant's Madame X but from the back in homage to her mother's starring role in Alfred Hitchcock Rear Window».


-Bob Colacello
Vanity Fair
Dec 2006