Video: Porcelain dolls with tattoos: an alternative take on Victorian beauties
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Tattooing has become quite popular in recent years. Today, few people will surprise with drawings on the body, but the Scottish artist Jessica Harrison it succeeded. She created a new series of sophisticated porcelain figurines in the Victorian style, "modernizing" female images with bold tattoos.
We have already told the readers of the Culturology website about the original work of Jessica Harrison. RF. Many people probably remember her porcelain girls without a head, more like zombies than Victorian beauties. This time, the beautiful heads are in place, but the author experimented wonderfully with the body. Exquisite facial features, beautiful dresses in pastel colors - these collectible dolls look simply amazing! The series was named The Painted Ladies, which literally means Painted Ladies.
In her works, the artist tries to understand how the perception of the world affects the formation of a person's appearance. Jessica Harisson explains that the body for her is a "canvas", which she tried to decorate according to the inner experiences of these prim beauties. The Victorian era is a time of suppressed passions, conventions and etiquette, but who knows what secret desires and suppressed emotions raged in the hearts of Englishwomen.
The tattooed porcelain figurines are featured in Jessica Harrison's first one-man show, FLASH. The exposition has recently opened in the Parisian gallery "L. J.", visitors will be able to look at the outlandish works until June 24, 2014.
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