Girl With Mirror is a watercolor based portraiture painting created by German painter and graphic artist Georg Schrimpf in 1930. As the representative of New Objectivity which indicates the new liberal art attitude of Weimar Germany as “The New Objectivity is Americanism, cult of the objective, the hard fact, the predilection for functional work, professional conscientiousness, and usefulness.”, Georg created most portraiture painting in a straight forward way. In Girl With Mirror, he used cream, flax yellow and cantaloupe combined with light grey blue as the fundamental color of the painting to compose an lethargic atmosphere. The girl on the painting holding a hand-size mirror is checking herself out though the mirror with a very leisured mood. Checking oneself out from the mirror is the thing that basically every girl does, it’s a very usual thing but demonstrated very interesting under Georg’s capture. I wish that I could have sometimes to be as leisure as the girl in the painting, if I couldn’t, I would like to image that easy and relaxing moment.
Self Portrait Project –
On The Mirror
Very interesting relationship between these two portraits. In the original portrait, the mirrors is small and the girl is large. In your portrait, the mirror and its texture seem to take on more importance than the human being reflected in it. Could be seen as interesting commentary on our contemporary “selfie culture”. Nice use of composition.
Good job!