Original Super Naomi Campbell Fronts W Magazine October 2014 'New Royals'

Naomi Campbell fronts the October issue of W Magazine, lensed by Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin.

In a week when one of the original supermodels walked multiple shows in New York, one of her more interesting images is a painting by South African, anti-apartheid artist Marlene Dumas that is part of a vast retrospective at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Dumas moved to Amsterdam in the’ 70s to study at the Atliers ‘63 in Haarlem and continues to live there.

Distinguishing herself from Pop artists like Andy Warhol, Dumas said: “I use second-hand images and first-hand emotions.” The Marlene Dumas exhibit is on view until Jan 4, 2015, where the curator describes her work in this way:

Dumas often finds inspiration in newspaper and magazine images from her immense visual archive. The artist believes that the endless stream of photographic images that bombards us every day influences how we see each other and the world around us. Dumas addresses this onslaught by revealing the psychological, social, and political aspects of these images. Her drawings and paintings have an enormous directness and expressiveness, which the artist couples with a certain analytical distance. Dumas does not shy away from controversial topics. In both her visual work and her writings, Dumas reflects on contemporary painting and what it means to be an artist.