Video from you tube - "women in art"
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When so supermodels make bad models? When they are art
models. I don’t want to offend any supermodels that may be reading this but
what you have to offer is just no good for art, your way way to thin for
anything but an anatomy study of bones and your legs are comically long when
put down on paper. Ok I may be going over the top but real life everyday women
make superb art models. I see women all the time I think would make wonderful artist
models; I’m never brave enough to suggest it as it would take most people off guard.
Feel free if you know me or meet me go ahead and ask what it is about you that I
would enjoy drawing.
Anyway, I think we all know that fashion models and movie stars are
enhanced, modified and photo-manipulated to fit a certain ideal of beauty. It’s
not an achievable beauty, it’s a cruel and taunting beauty one that has stolen
the confidence of so many women, and it’s a beauty that is so unkind it
makes us question even the bits of ourselves that we like. I am no supermodel
not by a long shot, my legs are long but not like Giselle, I’m thin but I’m no
twig, my hair is healthy but apologetically wild, my eyes are bright but they
aren’t movie star blue, but that’s ok because I know I make a good model - A good art model.
Last Wednesday I had a gig as an art model,
something i do from time to time. I get paid to take my clothes off and I love
it. This job rocks, because it is super peaceful unlike most of my life that’s
noisy and busy and hectic. It also has the benefit of showing me
something new every time about me, it’s my body through the eyes of
someone else. It’s like putting rose tinted glasses on and examining yourself. Artists make me look so lovely, soft and
feminine and it has really changed how I think about myself. I’m not big headed
I don’t think I’m an extra-ordinary beauty but I do think I’m beautiful. I am grateful that after having 2 kids modelling
restored my confidence when the mega machine corporate version of beauty was
trying to stamp on it. I often look at other
women and see how beautiful they are, I have drawn many other women, i
have been on the flip side of this equation and know that to be feminine and
beautiful doesn’t mean you have to be any particular shape or look at all.
Actually what beauty boils down to is how you look at something, it’s as the
saying goes 'in the eye of the beholder'. I like the artist view because mostly
they are looking for your beauty they are searching it out and doing their hardest
to put what they see on the page.
The
women of art history are a varied bunch and they are hauntingly beautiful. We
should look back and see ourselves in them and not compare ourselves to
magazine covers at creatures who do not exist without Photoshop. Long live real
bodies with curves and tummies! Hooray for women with interesting features,
eyebrows, defined noses, thin lips, fat lips, freckles and quirky smiles. I for
one don’t want the shifting face of a supermodel that can be shifted to suite a
company; I want to look like me all the time, everyday. Next time you look in
the mirror remember the women of art and say to yourself, “I am beauty”
This is a look at western women i would love in the future to take a look at beauty and different cultures, but i will save that for another humpday. Send me any ideas on this, and what is beauty to you?
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