Women In Art

Deborah · Women In Art

"Women In Art" is the title of a video that's currently featured on youtube.com:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs

For those of you who can't see videos, it consists of a series of famous paintings of women's faces in Western art, morphing from one to the next. What I found interesting is that I like a lot of the "in-between" faces more than the end products. Also, probably because there's a sense of motion that makes the faces seem more alive, the faces look more like real people than they do when they're static.

greg in noord-frankrijk

Très très beau. Une belle idée bien réalisée.

Ne manquait que Dora Maar à cette galerie de portraits féminins.

Elaine

I couldn't watch it on YouTube but I did get to see it at Metacafe. Wow! That was beautiful! Now if only I could get a list of all the works featured in that clip.

And you're right, many of the in-between faces were simply gorgeous, but their outcome was a bit on the anticlimactic side.

Speaking of women in art, I saw John Singer Sargent's works at the Getty months ago, and I just couldn't take my eyes off of his society portraits. The detail and colors were breathtaking! They actually looked like photographs.

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"Lady Agnew of Lochnaw"

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"Madame X"

And then my tired eyes rested on this piece... esta cuerisimo!

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"Dr. Pozzi at Home"

Deborah

Dora Maar d'une autre perspective:

Elaine, I love Sargent, and Lady Agnew has long been my favorite. But I hadn't seen Dr. Pozzi, at home or elsewhere, until you posted his portrait. Cuerisimo, de verdad!

Deborah

Oops! I didn't realize all those photos would tag along with Dora Maar's. She's the one at the bottom right (bottom left, too, I suppose).

Pauline

The video is beautiful, alhough I didn't like the cello / Bach but maybe it's because I watched the video on my laptop so the quality (sound) was bad. It's a very nice video so i will copy it on my computer (if this will be possible).

Deborah

I thought it was interesting to read viewers' comments about which faces they liked and which ones reminded them of some celebrity. I thought I saw Scarlet Johannson (spelling?), Drew Barrymore, Meryl Streep and -- almost -- Penelope Cruz.

Liz

That's a beautiful video and I liked the music, too. Thanks for sharing it.

It's amazing how these faces are morphing from one to the next.
Like one of the viewers there, I also missed Paul Gaugin's women. (Or they were included but I payed no heed?

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I was glad to see Modigliani's Lunja Czechowska there as it reminds me of my childhood. One of the first albums I have ever seen was a Modigliani album. I was fascinated by his portraits back then and I still am up till now. I hear a lot that he wasn't a really good painter and he had only few paintings worth mentioning, but I love his work so much. There is something special in those paintings that I can't describe.

Julian

Awesome video!

There's a morphing software program called Morpheus that I've been thinking about getting for some time now. Now that I've seen that video, I just may go ahead and buy it.

Walker

That was an awesome video! Almost creepy...

Elaine

A female artist whose works I adore (besides Sta. Frida) is Tamara de Lempicka. Is anyone else here a fan of her stuff?

http://www.greatmodernpictures.com/ptdl.htm

Porthos

Does Playboy count as art?

I mean afterall, it is photography, and the art is beautiful.

Deborah

Now there's Women in Film. (Mostly American, mostly white.) I thought Women in Art was much more interesting. In this one, though, it became very apparent to me how appealing a tooth-showing smile is.