[x]

deviantART

 

©2005-2009 ~TroyBlue
Details
Submitted: March 22, 2005
File Size: 458 KB
Image Size: 458 KB
Resolution: 800×600
Comments: 379
Favourites & Collections: 810 [who?]

Views
Total: 16,121
Today: 22

Downloads
Total: 310
Today: 0

Embed


Thumb


Picture
Make: Canon
Model: Canon PowerShot SD200
Shutter Speed: 1/8 second
F Number: F/2.8
Focal Length: 6 mm
Date Picture Taken: Mar 10, 2005, 7:36:43 AM

Artist's Comments

This is yet another pen and ink project. It is based on a figure I saw in a dream.

I wanted to portray the image of beauty that so many women strive to become--shattered, in the mirror.
What the figure represents is the result of self-loathing and the constant torture that so many women around us endure.
It is what their bodies come to look like after their irrational physical conditioning to become what our society has come to call "Beauty", thus the title.
You'll also notice the slit wrist...this was my attempt at emphasizing the sadness and depression that accompanies a woman's inability to become an image of perfection that cannot be acheived.

I hope you guys can appreciate the meaning as well as the art. =)
[x]

Devious Comments

Comments


i aprecaite both, ocmlty freaky and your dreams are interesting..but very good

--
Just because I'm paranoid doens't mean they arn't out to get me.
Thank you! I'm glad it's freaky. =B

--
Art is hard.
*rolls eyes* if tat sform your dreams, i never wann kno what your ngiht mares look like

--
Just because I'm paranoid doens't mean they arn't out to get me.
Oh my god. Oh. My. God. I love this. As grotesque as it is, I fully understand where you are coming from with this piece, with the whole thing of what an extreme search for beauty can do to a person.

This really hits close to home. Your idea, techniques, composition... I'm speechless.
this is trully an amazing pice, it has both meaning and skill congratulations =3 this is an awsome pice =3

--
★☆★☆★☆★☆
Scary! hehe, but you did an awesome job with it. The meaning comes through in a striking way. Personally I don't even find skinny supermodels attractive, I dont know whats up with these fashion ppl. Maybe its that the models are more like walking coathangers for the cloths hehe.
LOL! I've never thought of it like that! I'll have to use that...walking coathangers...

Well, my idea was to convey that some women go to such lengths to appear what they believe to be beautiful, you know?

We certainly wouldn't find the skinny afro-wench attractive. lol

--
Art is hard.
LOL! I've never thought of it like that! I'll have to use that...walking coathangers...

Well, my idea was to convey that some women go to such lengths to appear what they believe to be beautiful, you know?

We certainly wouldn't find the skinny afro-wench attractive. lol

--
Art is hard.
Oops.

--
Art is hard.
I havent had a chance to look at your other works, but after seeing this your gallery is mine biatch! er I mean Great work :D

seriously though this really appeals to me mostly because i understand the point your making, but i also like how you've exaggerated the planes of the bones and diminished the skin past that of even an annorexic. it's very harsh and drives your point home like a nail um.. driving um, home?

--
Fish Have no arms :( poor Fish
It would suck to have no arms.

Site Map