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Marilyn Manson Pillows at Design District
Marilyn Manson is no longer a controversial shock rock star. The infamous goth rocker is now showing his talent in the art industry with an eye-opening exhibit at Design District 101 Exhibit.

The grimy artist has nearly 30 large-scale and medium-sized watercolor paintings. These are a riff on celebrity, mutilation. dementia, and homicide. His sharp, aggressive paintings range from a threeheaded Jesus Christ decapitated on an antique embalmer’s table to a JonBenet Ramsey portrait of Sleeping Beauty. The girl is depicted as a happy princess and not as the victim in cold-blooded crime.

https://www.marilynmansonmerch.com/ contains many excellent artworks, despite the fact that they are not all perfect. One of the paintings, appropriately titled Masquerade (Masquerade), depicts a man wearing an gas mask. It might be a good metaphor for how spectators might react when Manson makes artistic overtures.

Another painting, Die Deutsche Kampferin, shows a naked Hitler, complete with limp tallywhackers, B-cup boobs, and clad in a Mercurochrome smear. This adds to the fear of the Fuhrer’s ghastly gob. The menace is softened by the addition of a patch purple-gold irises.

Manson has painted a scene from Elizabeth Short's funeral on a nearby mural. In it, her face is slashed at the corners and her ears. Her raven-haired features, propped up like a pillow, contrast starkly against the horrors inscribed into her flesh.

In a series he pays homage to the deceased in lush paintings that seep under the skin. Elizabeth Short portrays Snow White (A Smile II) in a closeup. Her blood-stained pearlies can be seen peeking through her lips. Her raven tresses lend the scene a romantic touch, while the picture's grotesque colors reveal the horrors inflicted to her body.

Manson's other art is equally worth seeing, apart from the extravagant portraits. His gritty, absinthe-drinking companion, When I Get Ole, is painted in mossy greens and sickly violets with his back bent like the pin of an apparition or grotesque. The megacephalic tyke beside the rotting infant in Ready or Not Tot also gets a scary-night shellacking, complete with droopy and putrefying eyes. Short's brutal act, of butchering her flesh, is also depicted with incredible detail.
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