Video: Barbie, my muse. Reincarnation of a Barbie doll in the works of Jocelyne Grivaud
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A favorite toy of big and little girls, a beauty ideal for teenagers, the Barbie doll often helps artists, sculptors and other creative units in their work. She turns into a bloodthirsty monster, then participates in the surrealistic works of Sandy Skoglund, then she is photographed to reproduce old famous paintings by famous masters … The French artist does something similar Jocelyne Grivaudtrying on the Barbie doll images of paintings and iconic figures from different eras. Jocelyne Grivaud's project is called Barbie ma musebecause the beauty of Barbie, more precisely, her ideal image, really inspires artists to be creative. However, this very image has recently been awarded merciless criticism for the unnaturalness and excessive glamor that children and adolescents seek to imitate, and this is unsafe. Therefore, the task of the art project by Jocelyn Griveaux is to show the beauty of the Barbie image from a different angle, from the other side.
In the paintings, comics and photographs taken by the artist, Barbie appears before us in the images of Mona Lisa and a girl with a pearl earring, like Marilyn Monroe "in Warhol" and Coco Chanel, Venus de Milo and Neytiri from the movie "Avatar" … The author does not only give dolls -the models are outwardly similar to the originals, but also introduces them into the same environment as in the original paintings, so that everything is realistic, so that everything is natural. Thus, as if softening the unnatural appearance and parameters of the famous doll.
The art project Barbie ma muse was timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Barbie doll. You can see these and other works with the participation of the plastic beauty on the site of the art project.
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