Kristen Willson

Being engulfed in portraits of women, and the idealized female body in today's society and public eye, I decided to produce a series commenting on how oftentimes women are portrayed as perfect beings. Men would paint or depict women as a fetishistic object and ignore flaws making the woman seem perfect. In olden times classical painters would depict women as an idealized figure, smoothing over their bodies ignoring blemishes with their painterly strokes. However, I am a woman in the modern era. I see the flaws in the women and I want to exaggerate them because a woman is still beautiful even if she contains a "double chin" or "acne" or even "large eyebrows". A woman portraying a woman has a very different approach than a man depicting a woman.