Monday, November 28, 2011

Head Shots

I'm used to being in the practice of looking at images, but right now it's consuming my life. So to take a break from the array of slide tests, essays and other art history non-sense I'm elaborating on a theme I explored for an assignment in IB Art. Our first year midterm was to design our own exhibition around a theme of your choice with between 10 to 20 works of art from different media and I chose to document the changing style of female portraiture through the ages...

La Scapigliata, Leonardo DaVinci, 1508 

Grunge à la Marc Jacobs in the 90s

Plummage - Roman - Flavian Dynasty, Cary Kwok, 2007

Close up of The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1485

The first supermodels

Afghan Girl, Steve McCurry, 2002

Woman I, Willem de Kooning, 1950-2

Your body is a battleground, Barbara Kruger, 1989

Frida Kahlo

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907

Coutney Love signing at a Givenchy after-party

Olympia, Édouard Manet, 1863

Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat, Salvador Dali, 1954

Turquoise Marilyn, Andy Warhol, 1962

Some Girls album cover, Rolling Stones, 1978 

Photo of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner

Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso, 1937

Our idea of the stereotypical 1950s woman

Girl with a Pearl Earring, Johannes Vermeer, 1665

The girls of Sex and the City


Nefertiti Bust, Thutmose, 1345 BCE

Ruth Smoking, Julian Opie, 2006

For Your Pleasure album cover, Roxy Music 1973

Venus di Milo, Alexandros of Antioch, 130-100 BCE

Yulia Kharlapanova in Marie Claire Italia June 2011

Man I feel like a woman.

- Life is good

Listening to: 'Breeze' - Apollo Sunshine
Observations: Failsafe feel better = Geordie Shore
Craving: A way to keep tea warm permanently

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