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Angelina Jolie may be the sexiest person alive ever (or something like that) according to Channel 4, but you can check out a different side to her in Josie McCoy’s paintings – a kind of post Pop Art lost look, perhaps.

McCoy, one of the Republic’s favourite painters of people from telly, will be showing her internationally renowned work as part of the Dream of Putrifaction at Fieldgate gallery in London, which opens today and runs until le poisson d’Avrile (April 1, to you).

The blurb for the show talks about the McCoy’s characters: ‘Their power to seduce speaks of their own “desire for attention” as would-be icons of consumer excess, as much as a play on the viewer’s gaze.’

And you can’t argue with that, on which note…

Posted by Cptn


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