100 Days of Art History Jinjins
January 31, 2020 6:14 PM Subscribe
Artist and Designer Jinjin Sun: "I'm slowly working my way through a personal project to do 100 master studies, faceswapping myself into each one as I go. This started as a 100 Day Project back in 2018 and quickly turned into a longer-term project that helps me express myself, explore my identity in relation to Western art history, and skill up in drawing."
The ones where she is both the Madonna and the Child are fantastic. Thanks for sharing.
posted by eirias at 7:21 PM on January 31, 2020
posted by eirias at 7:21 PM on January 31, 2020
Reminds me of someone....
posted by growabrain at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2020
posted by growabrain at 12:00 AM on February 1, 2020
This is delightful. I love that even the animals are included.
posted by taz at 7:47 AM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by taz at 7:47 AM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]
Yesssssss! Jinjin's work is so great, I have enjoyed every single one of these, and as someone who's still mostly shying away from representative painting I am really really admiring her willingness and ability to tackle style after style in this project.
I hang out in a slack visual art channel with her and get to chat about art stuff now and then and it's been really fun to see this series come along over time. She said she started looking to stained glass stuff in a way that led to her Donna of Mercy painting last year partly because of my chattering about my newfound enthusiasm for stained glass, and then after she posted that rebent messaged me on another channel to be like "hey you should check out this cool stained glass painting". Which was a good enough little loop that I turned around and said I'd make a stained glass ouroboros to celebrate.
posted by cortex at 8:11 AM on February 1, 2020 [5 favorites]
I hang out in a slack visual art channel with her and get to chat about art stuff now and then and it's been really fun to see this series come along over time. She said she started looking to stained glass stuff in a way that led to her Donna of Mercy painting last year partly because of my chattering about my newfound enthusiasm for stained glass, and then after she posted that rebent messaged me on another channel to be like "hey you should check out this cool stained glass painting". Which was a good enough little loop that I turned around and said I'd make a stained glass ouroboros to celebrate.
posted by cortex at 8:11 AM on February 1, 2020 [5 favorites]
I love this!
posted by supermedusa at 9:09 AM on February 1, 2020
posted by supermedusa at 9:09 AM on February 1, 2020
I love the time and globe-spanning diversity of art she has chosen. She made herself the Venus of Willendorf!😂
posted by supermedusa at 9:12 AM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by supermedusa at 9:12 AM on February 1, 2020 [1 favorite]
I love self insertion! See also Yasumasa Morimura.
posted by panhopticon at 9:32 AM on February 1, 2020
posted by panhopticon at 9:32 AM on February 1, 2020
I love this so much it almost feels like it's driving me crazy. You don't realize how thirsty for representation you are until you see it.
posted by Rora at 10:44 AM on February 1, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Rora at 10:44 AM on February 1, 2020 [2 favorites]
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