Rachel kindly sent me links to 3 artists relating to my ideas. This one caught my attention in particular...
Margi's work deals with human image and idealism. Her images depict construction and reconstruction of the body in order to achieve ideal beauty.
In the below image "Gepetto" a man is constructing a 'perfect' woman, just as makeup artists, photographers and photo manipulators engineer perfect women for media images.
Her image "Mirror" relates directly to my mini project, as she has used photoshop to create an image of an old woman restoring her youth with a makeup pad.
This image made me think of how I could present the original photo of myself next to the heavily altered image, or even merge the two so that the ideal and the real is split right down the middle.
There is a sadness to all of her images as all her subjects hold a certain shallowness and disregard for inherent human beauty. Their achievements are unnatural, unnecessary, and seemingly only to impress other people.
Margi's work deals with human image and idealism. Her images depict construction and reconstruction of the body in order to achieve ideal beauty.
In the below image "Gepetto" a man is constructing a 'perfect' woman, just as makeup artists, photographers and photo manipulators engineer perfect women for media images.
Her image "Mirror" relates directly to my mini project, as she has used photoshop to create an image of an old woman restoring her youth with a makeup pad.
This image made me think of how I could present the original photo of myself next to the heavily altered image, or even merge the two so that the ideal and the real is split right down the middle.
There is a sadness to all of her images as all her subjects hold a certain shallowness and disregard for inherent human beauty. Their achievements are unnatural, unnecessary, and seemingly only to impress other people.
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