FINAL PROJECT: IDEAL BEAUTY IN THE MEDIA
- isa occhionero
- May 9, 2021
- 1 min read
The outcome for the final project and digital collages: Two bodies of work
— Eternal Woman Digital Collage Series
— Garage Girls Digital Collage Series
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Excerpt from Artist Statement
Digitally altering classical artworks to fit today’s beauty standards in the media demonstrates that the ideals is a fluid and ever-changing entity that can never be fully reached or realized at any given point in time which therefore makes it completely unrealistic. Using classical paintings in my collages adds to the idea that the “perfect woman” doesn’t in fact exist and is heavily defined differently depending on time period. Looking at the role that images can play in identity we must first define what the “expected” identity is for the ideal women and that may bring us closer to explanations. A true women by Victorian standards have been described as having pure qualities like submissiveness and domesticity.[1] While these values may seem antiquated to some extent they have been carried through to modern times in ideologies on how women are expected to act, appear, and exist which is the reason why I included these classical images in my work.
[1] Langland, Elizabeth, "Nobody's Angels: Domestic Ideology and Middle-Class Women in the Victorian Novel," PMLA 107, no. 2 (1992): 291.
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