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Photo project of the week: Find artwork, recreate artwork, reimagine artwork. Not clear on whether it has to be famous artwork. I have three days to do all this, and then I've got full-time work and full-time school taking up all the time before the project is due. I thought of tarot cards, but Dad shot that down but good. I thought of a Madonna and child, but littlest sister is too big for that. I thought of the Last Supper, but we haven't enough bodies. I thought of Auguste Rodin, but he is way too fond of sculptures of naked people.

*complains*

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How about your icon? :D

Heh. Yeah. My models are my mom and sisters. They are not RENT-style close. They are also Catholic. So it's a lovely idea, thank you, but it's impractical.

Damn you social anxiety. If I knew other people I might know people I could work with for that.

What about Artemisia Gentileschi’s “Judith Slaying Holofernes” with your mother and sister as Judith and the maidservant? I’m not sure about who could play Holofernes – you might use a bolster or some inanimate object as a stand-in?

*Googles* Ooh, yes, I like that. I'll make Dad be Holofernes.

*chuckles* Glad to be of service!

Empress Josephine by Prud'hon? (Unsure if the link is stable, but google should give the necessary result.)

Corot, Woman reading a book, also in the Louvre. he has a series of young solitary women, which might be helpful.

Some of Degas' ballerina sculptures?

Do you have to use live models? If not, you could do the Last Supper with action figures or barbies or something.

Somehow I don't think that would produce the necessary gravitas. I'll ask the teacher, though. Thanks!

Transformative! Also, one can argue that the image (or the image of God creating Man from the Sistine Chapel - can close up on the hands (genderflipping it to your mom and sis?)) are so ubiquitous that they no longer *have* gravitas.

I'll stop now. :)

Mom suggested Degas, too. I dunno if we still have, or if anybody can still fit in, any of our old ballet recital costumes.

Or if you just have things that are *white* - flatmate had a white dress that achieved the same effect, and the nice thing about the sculptures is that their feet are generally down. (Alternatively, take it and run it in a different direction, practice gear for something else, although I don't know how much flex you have int eh recreat and reimagining bits.)

Also, I feel like there ought to be soem Alice in Wonderland illustrations, esp of Alice reading under a tree, which might be age-appropriate for younger sister.

Hm. I like that thought. *Googles*

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