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Swingeing London
Photographic: Swingeing London was inspired by a tabloid photo of Mick Jagger

Photos inspire painters at Hayward show

Louise Jury, Evening Standard
29 Aug 2007


Works by modern artists including Andy Warhol and David Hockney will go on show at the Hayward Gallery next month.

After the success of sculptor Antony Gormley's exhibition Blind Light, the gallery is turning to painting for its autumn show - but all 105 works take a photographic image as their source.

One of them, Swingeing London - a 1967 painting by Richard Hamilton - was inspired by a tabloid photo of Mick Jagger with Hamilton's art dealer Robert Fraser after they were given "swingeing" sentences for possessing drugs.

Other works cover subjects such as the Sixties race riots in America, as depicted by Warhol in his Death And Disaster series, the Iraq war and the sex industry.

Elizabeth Peyton, 42, a US artist who produces stylised portraits of pop stars and European monarchy, has taken inspiration from a photograph of Prince Harry taken at an Arsenal match.

Hayward director Ralph Rugoff said the show, called The Painting Of Modern Life, united "many of the most significant artists in the recent history of painting".

He added that the works presented "an artists' chronicle of the past half-century", as many of the original images recorded world events, such as the assassination of John F Kennedy.

• The Painting Of Modern Life runs from 4 October to 30 December at the gallery on the South Bank. Full price admission is £8.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/visual-arts

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