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She's a beauty

vronsky — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:35:18 -0800

500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art in 3 minutes. List of artists inside.

By: vronsky

vronsky — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:36:38 -0800

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

By: quin

quin — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:44:29 -0800

Wow. A cool use of morphing. I didn't know that was possible. That was actually really well done. Nice find vronsky.

By: flibbertigibbet

flibbertigibbet — Fri, 25 May 2007 11:57:28 -0800

Thank was good.

By: bitter-girl.com

bitter-girl.com — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:04:43 -0800

Very cool, but somewhat spoiled by the "I'd hit that!" comments below... sigh. Why are people so DUMB?

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:07:39 -0800

This is one of those FPPS where really, all I can say is "Great post!". So, uh, great post! Who's dumber, one who leaves a comment on YouTube, or one who expects to find anything of value amongst said comments? I keed, of course.

By: Muddler

Muddler — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:08:38 -0800

Very cool, but the morphing was actually making me a bit motion sick for some reason. I'm too old school in that to enjoy the art I'd prefer static slides that held each image for a second or two so I could enjoy the beauty of the actual piece.

By: Postroad

Postroad — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:09:37 -0800

I waned to post a few pictures of The Virgin Mary but mostly came up with Dick Cheney's daughter with her new pup.

By: gally99

gally99 — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:16:18 -0800

I got to see a Rolls Royce exhibit at the Black Hawk auto museum several years ago. One of the features was a row of about 20 of the Rolls hood ornaments, the Spirit of Ecstacy, spanning from about 1915 to probably 2003. Each one is done through lost wax casting, so you got to see the "ideal" female body type change over time, as her chest, rear and hips got bigger, then the rest of her rounded out, then she starts getting skinny again, etc. Same thing going on here. I'm into it, wish they would have shown more than just the faces in the paintings though.

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:20:17 -0800

Elusively amazing (I think?). Thanks so much vronsky.

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:23:55 -0800

Fantastic! The morphs gave the in-between moments a three-dimensional quality.

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:25:43 -0800

Oh please, like you wouldn't hit that.

By: JDHarper

JDHarper — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:27:10 -0800

Wow. The quality of the art takes a real nosedive in the last few seconds. When did it become unfashionable to make beautiful art?

By: JDHarper

JDHarper — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:29:21 -0800

As to the video itself: That was really, really interesting. It's neat to watch the eyes as the rest of the face morphs.

By: jouke

jouke — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:35:09 -0800

Ah, the womens are so cute Only the proportions between eyes, nose mouth and facial contour are constant throughout the paintings. Which makes you really lock into those feminine facial proportions; a task for which we mens are hardwired anyway.

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:44:47 -0800

"Wow. The quality of the art takes a real nosedive in the last few seconds. When did it become unfashionable to make beautiful art?" Oh, subjectivity, where is thy sting? I liked the last few, and for me the weak part was the "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" part, though I like some of the artists (and even the specific works) in there. Like, Manet is probably my favorite painter. I'll cop to much less interest in the Northern Renaissance and post-Renaissance artists though, especially when the Baroque and Mannerists slide into Rococco. (When I was studying for my last art history survey course, I'd slap a little racoon next to the rococco artists in my notes. Rocky the Rococco Racoon...) But hey, I don't like Nouveau much either, at least in portaiture. Still, while it was kinda slight, it was neat.

By: drdanger

drdanger — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:47:06 -0800

The intermediate images often struck me as more beautiful than either the starting or the ending face. Evidence for the beauty of averageness?

By: davejay

davejay — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:52:47 -0800

Fantastic.

By: ozomatli

ozomatli — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:53:26 -0800

Very cool. It is interesting how the western European ideal of feminine beauty hasn't really changed all that much (at least as far as facial features are concerned). I also wonder how much of the similarities between proportions is related to the practice of learning from the masters. It guess that kind of underscores the tremendous revolution in art in the early 20th century.

By: bitter-girl.com

bitter-girl.com — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:56:23 -0800

Good one, miss lynnster & Alvy. True, true, true. Now, if only someone will post a "if you don't watch this video 500 times and send the link to 500 friends your mom will die like immediately and stuff" comment...

By: Rumple

Rumple — Fri, 25 May 2007 12:59:01 -0800

Good good good thanks for posting. Intriguing. The first glimpse of teeth is a little shocking -- the secret smile is so much more alluring.

By: lysdexic

lysdexic — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:06:42 -0800

So we watch this while waiting for this to load?

By: lysdexic

lysdexic — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:10:49 -0800

Ok, that was cool. The Women in Film was just creepy

By: klangklangston

klangklangston — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:11:24 -0800

"It is interesting how the western European ideal of feminine beauty hasn't really changed all that much (at least as far as facial features are concerned). I also wonder how much of the similarities between proportions is related to the practice of learning from the masters." Well, no, that's largely because of the selections that whoever put this together made. It's a 21st Century view extrapolated backwards. Because you can find plenty of pictures of women who were considered beautiful contemporarily who look like total dogs now (the high forehead thing of the Middle Ages, etc.)

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:14:42 -0800

There's an animation like this showing in the kids area in the lower level of the Art Institute of Chicago right now. I only caught a glipse of it, but I think it's male and female faces, and not limited to Western Art.

By: felix grundy

felix grundy — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:39:18 -0800

I had to stop watching because I kept getting an uncanny automaton feeling when the faces would morph and turn back towards me. Seconds fourteen to sixteen were particularly unheimlich.

By: squalor

squalor — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:05:09 -0800

What? They left out my favorites!

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Fri, 25 May 2007 15:48:00 -0800

By: Scoo

Scoo — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:20:14 -0800

Rrrowr at 1:07!

By: BostonJake

BostonJake — Fri, 25 May 2007 16:20:29 -0800

That was insane. Sweet find, thanks vronsky.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:09:45 -0800

Thanks! I look forward to the future, when we will be able to cram more years of stuff into fewer seconds.

By: blasdelf

blasdelf — Fri, 25 May 2007 18:36:01 -0800

Now, if only someone will post a "if you don't watch this video 500 times and send the link to 500 friends your mom will die like immediately and stuff" comment... posted by bitter-girl.com at 12:56 PM DONE

By: spitbull

spitbull — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:27:26 -0800

Girl watching for art nerds.

By: HuronBob

HuronBob — Fri, 25 May 2007 19:36:43 -0800

nice.... thanks!

By: dreamsign

dreamsign — Fri, 25 May 2007 21:36:31 -0800

Me too, drdanger.

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 25 May 2007 22:13:02 -0800

vronsky, That was breathtaking. I just loved that! Exciting find. So brilliantly and beautfully done. The transitions between one face and another were fascinating. His George W morph is a bad trip. A tiny bit about the author of this work: eggman913. His YouTube user page. MySpace page with all his film shorts to date. He has a short about Providence Rhode Island, maybe he went to RISD?

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sat, 26 May 2007 01:43:41 -0800

wow. women started becoming really weird-looking sometime around the year 02:11. Rrrowr at 1:07! she's all yours. 1:36 is more my type.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sat, 26 May 2007 10:03:51 -0800

sorry, i'm ageist. she looked way better at 1:35.

By: LobsterMitten

LobsterMitten — Sun, 27 May 2007 15:18:32 -0800

cool - thanks.

By: a_s_m

a_s_m — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:24:04 -0800

Brings back memories from the thousands of slides to be memorized from Art History class. I think they just came back - and now I forgot how to tie my shoelaces!