Women In Art

[gilana]

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500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art. Beautifully done.

Comments

[kalliejenn2.livejournal.com]

did you have any trouble when you posted this? is it just me, or is lj acting wonky?

[gilana]

I didn't have trouble, but I did it right from YouTube. I am hearing about other people having problems posting, though.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Hauntingly beautiful - thanks for posting it.

[hahathor.livejournal.com]

This is an amazing piece of work - but I find it strange that there's only about 25 different artists represented. I think every female portrait that Da Vinci did is in there, for example. Not that he did all that many; mostly his drawing remain. Also (and I'm not sure if this is because of the selection by the videographer, or a limitation of Western art), but pretty much all the women are white, between 17 and 25 years old, with large vacant eyes, small closed mouths, and a slight tilt to the head. I get the impression that the videographer was doing the morphs around the eyes, but notice that the mouth barely changes, even when you get into the cubist paintings.

Well, at least Western art has a clear conception of what a woman is supposed to look like.

[lillibet.livejournal.com]

When we were in Greece a few years ago, we visited several different archeological museums (the one in Athens, one in Olympia, one in Delphi, etc.) and we were intrigued by a phenomenon repeated over and over. We'd walk into a room full of fragments of statuary, cast our eyes over the collection, say "oh, now she is really beautiful," and walk over to discover, every single time, that it was a depiction of Aphrodite. She looked quite different each time, but she was always the most beautiful woman in the room.

[billmarrs.livejournal.com]

wow... it's amazing how 3-dimensional they seem.

[queendeb.livejournal.com]

actually
i find it amazing
that so many women
have the same face over such a large span of time.

which is what i take away
from this beautifully morphed short.