the Met: In and Out of the Studio

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(left)WOMAN STANDING BEFORE STRIPED

Artist: Malick Sidibé (Malian, born 1936)
Date: 1979
(right) TROUSER IN NAVY WOOL CREPE
Celine Fall 2015
– The fashion image from Celine Fall 2015 collection was directed by Phoebe Philo who is famous for Normcore. Malick Sidebé, Malian photographer who took the picture on the left sides was stranded for the black and white studies.
-Even the “WOMAN STANDING BEFORE STRIPED” is a black and white picture, but it contains a lot of pattern elements on the woman’s dress and the background. However, the image on the right only uses plain color from the background to the model’s outfit.
-The facial expressions of both models are kind of monotone.
– For the pose, the standing position of both model is T-step,but the model on the left are more posed the the one on the right. The model on the right seems more leisure.
– The models are all standing closely to the middle of the images.

#1 InteStudio: Portraiture Art

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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