'Whistler's Mother' - Beauty Assignment

'The lady without the pearl earring' - beauty Assignment

Beauty Assignment

Ahhh the sigh of relief when you know you're assignments are complete are ready to hand in.

So I've had one of the busiest, most stressful weeks of my college life, I've had assignment after assignment.I have just finished my beauty assignment. We basically had to come up with a concept that portrays 'beauty'. 

To me beauty is in your soul, its in what you do and in your actions rather than how you look or your physical appearance. I wanted to focus on that aspect in my photographs. I decided to recreate famous, classic artworks. I wanted to depict the glorification of artworks. My whole idea was that the beauty is in the artworks themselves rather than the people in it. Beauty can be found in the composition and in the elements in the photographs. I chose to recreate The Mona Lisa, Whistlers Mother, & one of Monet's paintings. I wanted to create a slightly more modern version, as I did not just want to replicate the artworks, I wanted to make it my own. The people in the artworks aren't particularly beautiful, for example, the model in The Mona Lisa doesn't have eyebrows, and people debate the fact the model in the painting was in fact a man, yet is known as the the most beautiful artwork in the world. 

I had such an incredible time recreating these pieces & I only hope that my attempt will live up to the standards of the original artworks.