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500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, Titian, Botticelli , Boltraffio, Albrecht Durer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Messina, Perugino, Hans Memling, El Greco, Hans Holbein, Rokotov, Peter Paul Rubens, Gobert, Caspar Netscher, Pierre Mignard, Jean-Marc Nattier, Vigee-Le Brun, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Winterhalter, Tyranov, Borovikovsky, Venetsianov, Gros, Kiprensky, Amalie, Corot, Edouard Manet, Flatour, Ingres, Wontner, Bouguereau, Comerre, Leighton, Blaas, Renoir, Millias, Duveneck, Cassatt, Weir, Zorn, Mucha, Paul Gaugan, Henri Matisse, Picabia, Gustav Klimt, Hawkins, Magritte, Salvador Dali, Malevich, Merrild, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso
 | Amazing!!! Can you send me a copy? Thanks! |
 |  Amazing!!! Can you send me a copy? Thanks!  |
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 | This is just great! I host a TV show on visual arts on the Romanian Television (www.tvr.ro) and I would be honoured to have the privilege of showing this sequence as well as the "Women in Film" to my audience. Legal rights mentioned, no doubt about that. Would it be possible?
Thank you very much.
Marius Constantinescu (marius.constantinescu@tvr.ro) |
 | This video (and the video "Women In Film" was created by Eggman913. The music on both videos is from the first of Six Unaccompanied Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, played by Yo Yo Ma on his Stradivarius Cello. I am sure that Michael is not claiming 'credit,' or, are you, Michael? |
| miraulam wrote on Aug 8, '07, edited on Aug 13, '07 Thanks eggman913...I would never claim credit for your work & as you can tell, I do admire it...I was curious if there was anything in particular that inspired you to put this & others like it together....? |
 | I am struck by how sad most of the women look. |
 | I have to say that I was touched with the elegance of this piece. The simple beauty of all the women with the emotion of the music, brightened my day. Thanks |
 | THANKS! This is a welcome lesson in art! |
 | So very beautiful.Thank-you for condensing 500 years of art history into a peaceful minute. |
| So very beautiful.Thank-you for condensing 500 years of art history into a peaceful minute. |
 | to MHK3001- they're not sad! Most were relaxed and happy, and the majority had their mouths closed. Just because they don't have the big toothy smile of a magazine cover girl does not mean they are sad. I have no speakers, and so concentrated on the beauty of the images. Absolutely mesmerizing. |
 | Michael,
Thanks so much for doing this; I was enthralled. I'll be teaching a college course called "Arts in Context," and I can't wait to share it with my students.
Thanks,
Lynn Ellis |
 | I don't know who you are, but this is an amazing bit of art. Can't help but notice it's all white European .... but the technique is spellbinding! |
 | Beautiful, I cannot wait to share with my students.
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 | Wonderful. Delicious. Awesome. I'm also struck by how all the women are caucasians, unfortunately. |
 | Wonderful and fantastic!
Nancy
Cal State Northridge |
 | AMAZING -- what a beautiful piece! |
 | To roarck and cudabearmama - 500 Years of Female Portraits in WESTERN Art is the title... Yes, they are all caucasian. |
 | Please send a copy to Chris Bahr on www.myspace.com/chriskbahr
Thanks,
CB |
| I love the women in art animated segment.
Chris Bahr |
| I love the women in art animated segment.
Chris Bahr |
 | This reminds me that women have been the focased value of Art historicaly as outlined in the book Ways of Seeing.
Vessal |
 | really exquisite! After I realized it was clearly Western and white I was struck by the feeling I was looking at the same woman for 500 years. I watched it again and simply looked at the mouth. It was pretty much the same mouth for 500 years with the exception of the last few images. Either white women don't have much variation in the shape of their mouths, or these brilliant artists had no imagination or there was only one mouth that was considered beautiful for 500 years. Just a thought |
 | i do not think you are quite rigth about the same face and the same lips. They are all different - just look at the Renaissance faces and then French Romantism and the Realism faces and definitely there is nothing in common between these faces and those of Impressionism. And another thing, at those times canons of beauty were totally different and artists, creating a piece of art, gave best features to it, may be evem making a not so pretty face more beautiful. Reminds PhotoShop thing, huh? |
 | May I please please please buy this on dvd?
closesignmakers@commspeed.net |
 | fasdy wrote on Sep 28, '07 I watched it again and simply looked at the mouth. It was pretty much the same mouth for 500 years with the exception of the last few images. Either white women don't have much variation in the shape of their mouths, or these brilliant artists had no imagination or there was only one mouth that was considered beautiful for 500 years.
Paintings can take from hours to months or years to complete. Portraits were often done with a model with as much of a neutral facial expression as possible. Models, male or female, are not going to hold a toothy smile while they sit there for hours, it's not just possible or logical. You don't want to start a painting out with one expression, only to have issues when the model is no longer smiling. The facial structure already painted would be completely different and you would need to start that area over.
It's the same as why with early photographs and daguerreotype photographs everyone in the image looked "glum." They all had neutral faces as the process of taking the photograph could last well over 10 minutes in order for the image to be bright and clear. If there was any movement -- arms, legs, toothy smiles to neutral faces -- the image would come out blurry!
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| fasdy wrote on Sep 28, '07 I am struck by how sad most of the women look.
Oh, no, they aren't sad at all!
Paintings can take from hours to months or years to complete. Portraits were often done with a model with as much of a neutral facial expression as possible. Models, male or female, are not going to hold a toothy smile while they sit there for hours, it's not just possible or logical. You don't want to start a painting out with one expression, only to have issues when the model is no longer smiling. The facial structure already painted would be completely different and you would need to start that area over!
It's the same as why with early photographs and daguerreotype photographs everyone in the image looked "glum" -- it wasn't just the era! They all had neutral faces as the process of taking the photograph could last well over 10 minutes in order for the image to be bright and clear. If there was any movement -- arms, legs, toothy smiles to neutral faces -- the image would come out blurry!
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 | Thank you to this brilliant artist for putting this together. ABSOLUTELY MESMERIZING! Klimz' women
could fit beautifully in this piece. I don't understand people who automatically find fault and look negatively
on any obvious labor of beautiful art. Appreciate it for what it is and it will make you FEEL GOOD! |
 | This is a beautiful video and not a racial statement. The fact is that it was taken from Western Art and historically that is Western Art. Compilations from other cultures would certainly reflect the other culture. Beauty is and is not limited to any race or culture. Thanks for this lovely video. |
 | Hi, Michael and forgive me my English ´cause I´m from Uruguay, Latin America. Amazing your video..please, you have a lot of more women to make another one, like Vermeer´s ¨Girl with a pearl¨, Goya´s ¨Majas¨, and so on...Keep on walking, yours is art too... |
 | Beautiful work, but where are the "women of color" that are (to me, anyway) blatantly missing? Is there no access to art/art history artifacts that you might be able to include in a similar piece (if not make an addition to this one)? |
 | wep54 wrote on Oct 6, '07 Absolutely beautiful work. It's so very human for people to find fault in such a lovely piece. Like a flower growing in a paved world I was reminded there is beauty in the midst of a chaos and pain. Thank you |
 | lujak wrote on Oct 9, '07 An amazing piece, and gratful my sister shared this with me. All the women were spell binding and beautiful. I love it.
Lu |
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 | It is difficult for some to understand that not all cultures require women to smile constantly to announce their beauty. Sometimes, many times in my opinion, other expressions are more interesting. And certainly one could be done with a different racial mix. Someone who wants to do one with that particular interest could do it! |
 | This is truly an awesome piece of work. What a lovely way to showcase women! Thank you!! |
 | t h a a n k z but how can i download it? |
 | How typical of we people to nitpick something that is meant to be lovely, restful and instructive. Why can we not calm our spirit and quiet our intellectual tendencies that cause us to analyze every little thing and just enjoy the beauty of the artwork and the cleverness it took to bring it to us. I admire the time and effort it must have taken to put this wonderful piece of art together. I love it. |
 | Amazing is such a minimal word for that clip...the way you've morphed those pieces is remarkable. |
 | Not a single Black woman? Or other non-white women? Is this supposed to be another western litmus test for beauty and art. no thank you. what year is this??? |
 | yahwn wrote on Oct 22, '07 The year is 2007. Who would you accept an apology from? Would you like to submit or propose pictures to your liking, please? Also, have you got a suggestion for a new title? Maybe "500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art" is politically incorrect nowadays, as it clearly disrespects the male half of humanity. In case it helps, I offer you an apology in the name of my husband any myself: sorry. |
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 | waiguoren wrote on Oct 23, '07, edited on Oct 23, '07 Where's Freda Kahlo, and other women artists' self-portraits? |
 | drsnapper wrote on Oct 24, '07, edited on Oct 24, '07 The political commentary on this piece of art remind me of what Stendhal once wrote: "Politics in a work of literature is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert, something loud and vulgar, and yet a thing to which it is not possible to refuse one's attention." |
| You don't have to defend it against anyone for any reason. The work stands alone as an exquisite piece of art employing modern technology. I wish I could figure out how to depict history in the same way. |
| You don't have to defend it against anyone for any reason. The work stands alone as an exquisite piece of art employing modern technology. I wish I could figure out how to depict history in the same way. Thanks....I just want to make it clear that I did NOT create this one. It was done by a user named eggman that's been posted on YouTube here: http://www.youtube.com/user/eggman913I suppose you could ask him how he put this one together. |
| Sorry. I did not mean to imply that you created it. But I do want to say that you have an excellent eye for a beautiful work of art. Actually, eggman913 did not create it either. The Masters did. He just morphed them all together. An exellent peice of technological work. |
 | I feel honored to have seen something as beautiful and thought provoking as this work of art. In a world of negativety, I thank you for a truly inspiring and heartfelt work of art! |
 | Since woman are always my favorite, seeing them thru the ages is inspiring thank you for passing them on.thank you
george |
 | This is the the most awsome film I have every seen. I placed in my favorite places so I can watch it again and again, I love it. |
 | I probably belabored my comment; perhaps I should have just said "bad teeth" - |
 | This video is really beautiful, but it's all images by male artists portraying women as subjects. What about women as artists? How about a cool video sequence of female artist's self-portraits? http://www.guerillagirls.com |
 | Marvelous morph integration....Bravo on a video well done! |
 | amazinggggg can u get me more like th |
 | very nice...they kind of look the same.. :) |
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 | loved it but wistfully wished for a longer pause on each face, before morphing to the next, so that I might have appreciated each more fully....and eggman - Ignore the critics, some people just aren't content unless they tear down another's work. |
 | I've never seen anything like it, how bout one with nudes or animals or children or Jesus or angels or men? It was so lovely... |
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| you can actually pause it anytime and study the pictures and also the transitions...it's cool...just click the green bar |
| That is a very interesting point....I hadn't thought of that....as people's life's improved - hygiene included - there is a look of profundity on a lot of these that is perhaps a direction expression of the artist....perhaps? |
 | Thank you for this. It is a beautiful celebration of womanhood. I just sat in peaceful contemplation and gazed at it as it played. The comments below the video are funny but interesting, though. Still, I think too much analysis detracts from the simple appreciation of Beauty. |
 | very nice! thanks for this! ;) |
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 | That was beautiful. My eyes and ears thank you ...peace, kt |
 | Lovely idea and work. But where are the women of color?
Denise Bostrom |
 | Just great! There's nothing like great art. |
 | I think it's terrific. The accompanying music sounds like an unaccompanied partita by J.S. Bach. Which one? I did spot one typo -- The French Impressionist's name is Paul Gauguin ( not Gaugan as in the caption) Thanks for this marvelous experience. golkcab
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 | AMAZING, BUT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN WOMEN OF ALL COLORS. |
| AMAZING , BUT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN WOMEN OF ALL COLORS. |
| I agree that there should have women of color. Perhaps it should be retitled "Women in Art in Western Civilization." Also, I do hope that someone will correct the spelling of Gauguin's name.
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 | I think the picture is very good, because it's look real |
 | anothernyer wrote on Nov 17, '07, edited on Nov 17, '07 Perhaps those missing women of darker skin tones in this magnificent composition should create their own masterpiece. |
 | HEIDI wrote on Saturday:
wow, I might want to paint again, wow!!!! |
 | Other than being amazing, it is quite telling that all the women up until the late 19th century had almost excatly the same mouth, subtle innocent openess and framed expression. In the early 20th century is the first time we see their mouth's open slightly and a glint of a smile and then a hand will appear. It takes 4 centuries for open joy and expressions of 'owning themselves' to occur in art.
Truly an inspiring collage. |
 | This is beautiful, why is it though that some people feel that every piece of art or work neds to represent the entire human cause. I am all for this to contain every color of woman in the world, but that is for another piece of work. Not every piece of art or work in the world needs to represent every human white, black, yellow, purple. These people represent those who are small minded enough to wonder why any painting is of a caucasian person, I am sure there are people out there who would say the Mona Lisa, should have been colored. Open your eyes to art and beauty and forget political correctness in art!!!!!!! |
 | loish wrote on Nov 20, '07 Thank you for sharing this video put together by eggman913. What a sensitive and excellent piece of craftsmanship to showcase some of history's most beautiful paintings. I wonder how many places in the world this has gone to? I am on an island of about 50 residents on the coastline of New Zealand. The Internet and sites such as Multiply has created a society free of borders. |
 | I am also from New Zealand. That was interesting, thank you for showing it and thanks to Eggman too. |
 | Yes I have seen this. It is quite amazing. I came here from Lois' site. |
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 | Wonderfull!!! Can you send me a copy? thanks |
 | , Brandi Quarry wrote on Nov 22
God has really blessed you with such a great gift. Thank you for sharing
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 | My wife is a teacher of art and head of social science at a private school in North Hollywood, CA. This is a brilliant rendering of more than 500 years of art. I would love to get a copy for her to use to teach kids the power of the interface between classical art and the computer world. Is it possible to get a copy? |
 | Whats wrong with this beautiful piece having only caucasian women in it, I am quite proud of my heritage and enjoyed the sameness of color as it changed through the different artwork. Maybe someone can do the same for women of color. |
 | This is so beautifully touching, so universal, so evocative of our oneness that I would love to see non-European women included as well as more ancient and contemporary women in art. |
 | I like to think I'm a glass half full person, so I think it was wonderful. When viewing a beautiful painting you DO NOT criticize what the artist did not do, you appreciate what was done. Instead of concentrating on what is missing just appreciate what is there. |
 | The smile:
Women do not smile in these portraits because a big toothy grin, or even a broad smile was an indication of low class and vulgar. Women of refinement were elegant, calm, poised, and most of all in control of their emotions (considered to be the greatest weakness of women in many cultures and periods).
Beautiful beautiful work! I am an art historian and I love this work- can't wait to show it to my class next term! |
 | your vision of self expression was one of immense delight. thank you for sharing of yourself. Shayleen from baltimore maryland |
 | Follow the eyes and you will see the poetry in this piece. Denise Brady, NC Coast |
 | sylse wrote on Nov 30, '07 This is one of the most amazing and beautiful things I've seen in a long time...thanks for sharing.
Who made it? |
 | Take time to do something that does not cause any stress. See this video. |
 | This is just beautiful. Such breath taking of all these women. I thank you so much for sharing such a treasure. I would love to have this but I don't know how to save it. A real joy...Jaylena Echo :) |
 | I was totally engaged in the beautiful format.
My shoulders drooped and relaxation filled my senses. Thank you,Janie w. |
 | It is wonderful, I wish could dawload it for my University Students; Please help me to do so, Thanks.
Massoud9d@Hotmail.com |
 | Hello,
I am an art curator, based in London, UK. A friend forwarded this to me, I love it! Can you tell me who is the artist who created this video? I would love to be able to download it! Can I kindly ask if you can send it to me.
With best wishes,
myriam_blundell@kontemporaryart.com |
 | What a truly inspiring and inspired work. Every student of art should see this, no, every student should see this. My profound thanks. |
 | Sherie Lahouti from Nice, France,
I have studied Computer Art in London,
A brilliant work of art through history, wonderfully thought and done, for few moments it took me out |
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