Franco grew up backstage. His father worked in museums and theaters, decorating rooms and designing stages. Franco loved watching actors prepare for performances, surrounded by costumes and theatrical makeup. It's easy to see how that childhood environment influenced his elaborate compositions.

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ALI FRANCO calls his art “Bourgeois porn in candy covers.” The Ukrainian painter & illustrator, now based in Portugal, is classically trained but embraces modern techniques, drawing on theater, stage design & classical imagery to create his distinctive visual world.

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“Classic Fit”, 12” x 16”, Oil on canvas. Original and Prints available. This one sure stirs some old fantasies in me. All this guy would’ve had to do is wink at me while walking by and I would have tripped and ran into the wall. 😛🤣

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Happy Hump Day Guys! Let your guard down and see what happens. 😉🏳️‍🌈

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Recreating these iconic nudes wasn’t always comfortable. Samuels found that many of the original poses were physically painful to hold. His meticulous reenactments do more than parody photography’s classics; they reveal just how carefully constructed those seemingly effortless images really are.

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