Behind the Iconic Painting That May Have Inspired Frank Ocean's "Lens" Cover Art

The once elusive Frank Ocean is now a rapid-fire howitzer of new tracks ever since he launched his blonded Radio show on Apple Music. The New Orleans-born artist recently released his latest track "Lens" alongside a remix of the same song featuring Travis Scott. Accompanying the single is a vibrant cover art that Twitter user Rina Nkulu claims to have been inspired by artist Kerry James Marshall's A Portrait of the Artist As a Shadow of His Former Self (1980), as per The Fader. Ocean's cover dra...