Meanwhile, something on a lighter fare from ArtNews Headlines:
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"Snoop Dogg, the Artist, in Action"
For their forthcoming campaign, Swedish footwear kings Happy Socks enlisted Snoop’s creative team, Cashmere Agency to explore The Art Of Inspiration with their latest music collaborator. The short film opens with stark shots of an all-white studio space; fluorescent lights switch on to reveal blank canvases, and the camera slowly pans to a white table covered with brushes and paints. Snoop Dogg’s unmistakable voice coolly speaks over the montage: “I’ve always felt like painting was something I wanted to do, but I just never had time to do it.”
News began trickling in about the rapper’s forays into visual art in February this year when his Versace-inspired painting – created overnight at the Palazzo Versace in Australia – sold for $10,200. With “The Art of Inspiration”, Snoop is pushing his new passion further, using painting as yet another way to express himself creatively. – Read More from Dazed