New York, NY (Top40 Charts) What a story this is! The controversial and ground-breaking "Sexual Explosion" painting went from being banned in public to cult icon and world fame to being called "This Century's "Mona Lisa."
"Sexual Explosion is this Century's "Mona Lisa."
That is the claim of art critic Stan Zipperman in announcing that banned once "Sexual Explosion," the world's most famous modern nude portrait, is to be the charismatic heroine who comes to life in a major new Hollywood feature film in pre-production by Hollywood Entertainment Productions for filming on location in
Waikiki and Honolulu and on the island of Lanai in Hawaii.
How did the ground-breaking and controversial "Sexual Explosion" painting become so world renowned in modern Fine Art?
"The back story behind the phenomenal rise to fame for "Sexual Explosion" in contemporary modern art is an incredible achievement," stated Zipperman. "By 2011, Google Images had over 11 Billion Images and counting - in its vast database. So today, to find the "Sexual Explosion" image ranked on Page 1 in # 1 or # 2 position or near the top in many Google Images categories, especially in most famous nude paintings, but also in most famous surreal nudes, modern nudes, controversial nudes, pop art nudes and more, is definitely one for the record books."
"Furthermore, it is unquestionably an astounding feat to be ranked at or near the top in the Internet's leading image search engines when one realizes that all the priceless and celebrated female nudes over the centuries by painters Goya, Renoir, Manet, Duchamp, Modigliani and Dali usually rank below "Sexual Explosion" today," explained Zipperman on behalf of Hollywood Entertainment Productions.
"Add to this the reason that the "Sexual Explosion" oil portrait usually ranks the highest in web searches for most famous nude paintings on YouTube is probably because several popular music videos and art videos feature the Jim Warren artwork, including "Best Top 10 Most Famous Paintings in the Art World" in which "Sexual Explosion" placed in # 4 position even though it was the newest artwork and Warren was the only living artist in the top 10 that was dominated by history-rich da Vinci's "Mona Lisa," Dali's "Persistence of Memory" and Van Gogh's "Irises" and "Starry Night."
Zipperman continued, "Perhaps one of the answers why "Sexual Explosion" is so highly-ranked on Google, Yahoo, and Bing web searches is that the shocking portrait has been featured for years on leading
Internet art sites as Art Collectors Website (https://www.artcollectorswebsite.com) and on Art Brokerage where it captured the imagination of the public and generated buzz in the print and online news media who have viewed or downloaded the image. However, I might add that it was not seen "in person." To this day, "Sexual Explosion" has still not been exhibited in public. It has been hidden in a private art collector's secret art vault in Hawaii for decades."
"Another interesting fact in the inside story of how "Sexual Explosion" became world-famous is most surprising," Zipperman revealed. "To our knowledge, the original canvas may not been professionally photographed until 2012. For nearly 40 years, only one photo has existed and it was photographed with a non-digital camera. In other words, "Sexual Explosion" achieved fame in spite of the questionable photo quality. Only in the last two years was it professionally photographed with a digital camera.
Now, however, with the new digital photos available online on Google Images and on the Art Collectors Website (https://www.artcollectorswebsite.com), Warren's attention to the minute details in "Sexual Explosion" becomes clear and the art piece becomes all the more mystical and mysterious but also more revealing. Is the alluring naked female figure of the reclining girl on a Dali-inspired surreal beach or is it a surreal ocean or is it, indeed, in the heavens while she is in a state of "exploding ecstasy?" Or are all three visual paradoxes?
It has often been speculated that both music superstars
Madonna and Lady Ga Ga may have been inspired by the pose of the nymph in "Sexual Explosion" to create promotional photos of themselves comparable to the image in the painting.
California-born painter Jim Warren (1949) had a following as a favorite cult figure in Hollywood, especially among the entertainment industry's elite who watched his status grow in esteem as an emerging artist during the seventies with his art creations as "Sexual Explosion, "Re-Birth" and his cosmic surreal male nude portrait "Eternal Youth" (1977) the 20" x 18" magical master work.
Then in 1980 Warren achieved international acclaim and publicity by winning the Grammy for Best Album Cover for Bob Seger's "Against the Wind," the hit record that went on to sell over 6 million copies world-wide, thus making the wild horses on the cover one of the most famous horse icons in modern times. Warren's original oil painting, the 24" x 14" "Running Wild" (1977), is credited as serving as the prototype picture and inspiration.
Warren's "other" celebrated nude portrait, "Re-Birth (1976)," a 20" x 30" oil on canvas, has followed closely behind "Sexual Explosion" in an almost equally triumphant international public reception and with exceptional high rankings on Google Images and other leading search engines even though it has not been displayed publicly either.
Hollywood Entertainment Productions further announced that author John Griswald, the noted Hollywood veteran journalist and novelist, has been tapped to write the screenplay for "Sexual Explosion," based on an original story by Stan Zipperman. Griswald is the author of the novel "The Girl From Rue Serpente" which is featured on Amazon eBooks. "The Girl From Rue Serpente" is an erotic World War II love story between an American soldier and a young French Resistance fighter caught in the deadly web of a crazed priest during the Liberation of Paris from the Nazi Occupation in 1944.
According to Zipperman, Hollywood Entertainment Productions will soon conduct a world-wide talent search for an actress to portray the mystical muse in the "Sexual Explosion" portrait. An actor for the role of a younger leading man to play opposite the girl, will also be sought for the script that is described as an edgy romantic fantasy drama. The film is expected to be directed in the innovative and adventurous style as the recent box office hit movie "Her" which was produced by Megan Ellison's Annapuma
Pictures in Hollywood.
While still in the stages of pre-production, attention is now being directed to international funding and production partnerships for "Sexual Explosion." Yet, there is talk of an elaborate future marketing campaign. To that end, Hollywood Entertainment Productions is in negotiations with the owners of "Sexual Explosion" to allow the artwork to be exhibited for the first time at gala Hollywood-style premieres world-wide to be attended by movie stars and also celebrities from the art, auction and museum world walking down red carpets.
"Wedding at Walmart," described as "an outrageous wedding romp that takes the cake," is now in early pre-production development as the second major motion picture slated for production by Hollywood Entertainment Productions. The romantic comedy is expected to also be filmed in
Waikiki and the island of Lanai in Hawaii. The screenplay will be based on an original treatment by Stan Zipperman and a screenwriter will be assigned and announced on a new website for HEP that is now under construction.
