Eric Millikin

Hottest Trending Self-Portraits

Series of self-portraits as "most popular fictional character, in a style inspired by the most popular artist, with most popular quote by most popular human being."


"Self-Portrait as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, with quote from a Taylor Swift song, in the colors of a hurricane weather map"2017

"Self-Portrait as Pennywise the Dancing Clown, with quote from a Taylor Swift song, in the colors of a hurricane weather map"

2017

September 2017

This data-driven self-portrait is based on my meticulous study into the most popular internet research trends, news consumption, music sales, airplay, and movie box office revenue of two weeks in September, and the results pretty much perfectly capture September 2017.


March 2016:

Self-Portrait as The Punisher, with quote from Donald Trump, in the style of the Unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.


 

February 2016:

Self-Portrait as Marvel Comics' Negasonic Teenage Warhead, in a style inspired by the chimpanzee artist Pierre Brassau who fooled art critics, with quote by Republican front-runner Donald Trump.


January 2016:

Self-Portrait as Deadpool, in a style inspired by Indian painter Amrita Sher-Gil, with quote from David Bowie.


December 2015:

Self-Portrait as Superman villain Doomsday, in a style inspired by performance artist Yoko Ono, with quote from Solomon Northup, author of 'Twelve Years a Slave.'


March 2015:

Self Portrait as Marvel Comics The Vision, in a style inspired by English botanist and photographer Anna Atkins, with a quote by award-winning-award-show-interrupter Kanye West.


January 2015:

Self-portrait as Marvel Comics Ant-Man, in a style inspired by "Big Eyes" painter Margaret Keane, with quote by 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle.

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