Lighting Studio, Portraiture.
Brief: Take a European renaissance painting and use photographic studio lights to replicate the lighting, composition and framing used in the painting. In you photographic replication, explore present-day ways of thinking that relate to ideas of connection.
Saskia Van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume.
Saskia Van Uylenburgh was the first wife of Rembrandt, a Dutch painter. In this painting she is 23 years old and had been married to Rembrandt for a year. She is dressed as Flora, the Roman goddess of spring and fertility. Her dress is a seventeen century version of Renaissance dress.
Charlie as Saskia in Arcadian Costume with a modern twist.
In our response to the painting, we wanted to modernise the depiction of Flora by having the model in a suit. Rather than conforming to the traditional dress and beauty ideals that were expected of women at the time of the painting. This eliminates the dominant presence of pleasing the male gaze that most works had in that time and celebrates the individual for who they are.
Bibliography
Adorama. How to Get Perfect Rembrandt Lighting: Take and Make Great Photography with Gavin Hoey, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaTwd8b79Ao.
“Rembrandt | Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume | NG4930 | National Gallery, London.” Accessed June 13, 2022. https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/rembrandt-saskia-van-uylenburgh-in-arcadian-costume.
“Saskia van Uylenburgh in Arcadian Costume | Art UK.” Accessed June 13, 2022. https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/saskia-van-uylenburgh-in-arcadian-costume-115289.