Video: Victorian Porcelain Headless Girls
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Artist Jessica Harrison is famous for creating porcelain sculptures in the style of Victorian England. This, of course, in itself is not something particularly interesting and unique. But the fact that Jessica creates these cultures in a zombie style is just her unique "trick".
Victorian England of the second half of the 19th century - the beginning of the 20th century is an era of very prim, conservative, pedantic and chaste people. At least, everything was flaunted that way.
You couldn't speak directly about what you were thinking. And even thinking about sex was indecent. Frankness was strictly taboo. And therefore people had to experience their passions in themselves, in silence. Partly, it is precisely because of this in England at that time that such a genre in art as "horrors" in its modern concept was born ("The Headless Horseman", "Dracula").
Although, of course, there was no such genre as zombies at the end of the nineteenth century and could not be. But that didn't stop Jessica Harrison in any way. And she created a series of porcelain statues of lovely Victorian ladies. Only they … How can I put it? Not quite alive.
One of them had her head torn off, another had her skull open, a third had her throat cut, a fourth had her eyes torn out of her orbits, and a fifth had no face at all. And Jessica Harrison has created almost two dozen of such a variety of knacker figurines. However, physiological problems do not affect the appearance of these beauties. They are, as in ordinary Victorian figurines, fun and carefree.
With her work, Jessica Harrison has shown a rather extraordinary look at the Victorian Era. George Romero and other zombie apologists can be proud of it. And fans of zombie movies can run to buy these figurines, because their number is limited.
However, these zombie figurines from Jessica Harrison are not at all the most amazing thing that is now made of porcelain. Take the porcelain pistols of Yvonne Lee Schultz or hundreds of thousands of porcelain seeds from the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
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