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A very intriguing concept, and I find it quite provocative. The statue lends its Greco-Roman classicism to the model, rendering her more than human. Excellent use (and thankfully not overuse) of soft lighting highlights this effect without drawing attention away from it. The viewer is invited to reflect on more than just the painting, but on the meaning of beauty and our lingering fascination with the Classical ideal of proportionate body.
The angle of the statue figure bothers me ever so slightly. I feel like the statue is just slightly too angled into the foreground, and that practical consideration saps just a tiny bit of the surrealism for me. This is not enough, however, to overwhelm the meaning of the piece.
One final thought: I wonder why the artist chose to keep the model in an identical position as the statue. As a feat in itself, the matching is flawless. However, I wonder if meaning could have been even more poignantly suggested through subtle differences in the poses or demeanor of the model and the statue.
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Thank you so much for your critique, it is highly appreciated!
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Thank you so much
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you are very welcome
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Yes it's very nice have a wonderful day oh and a great weekend also
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Sure thing well I'm heading out enjoy your day
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Which 1 of these objects is tha statue type thingy; I'm jokin here, statues are people like tha rest of us|
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Great work! But you should have the blanket also.
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Overall, this series of works is quite an impressive blending of mediums.Β A very good job has been done with giving the photography portions an almost oil-painting-like quality.Β One question about this particular selection though:Β Having personally seen this sculpture in the Louvre, i would note that from the other side there is a particular aspect to it which many who see it find rather jarring and unexpected.Β Is there any chance you might at some point create a hybrid work like this one showing the view from the opposite angle?
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Thank you for an interesting comment!
I know the other side of this statue, but it seems to me not so important. Personally I feel in it the idea of female beauty, not of bisexual nature.
So I would not probably try to create an alternative variant you mention.
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Wonderful act, tasteful woman, mastermind work...
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How lovely to see some tasteful, classy 'proper' art on here instead of the usual near-pornographic trash!! This is truly lovely 
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Thank you so much Sharon 
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Wonderful concept. It works and make the viewer think about the picture which is not easy to achieve.
Technically good, not so sure on the lighting which is not consistent in the upper and lower Part of the picture.
I would very much like to see if this idea would work as an improvement: Β light between the life and the stone model. Real model positioned on the lower end of the picture, Stone statue on the upper half of the picture. So the light will be more consistent, shining from the middle. The models would lay back to back then.
One additional thought on colors: Other than in most other pictures in this great series here the stone has more color. This reduces the distance/ contrast between model and stone statue as the color to b/w contrast is reduced. Its ok, if intended to show how near life and stone are.
The statue has her eyes closed (dreaming?), other than the model. This could also be used to make the real model a dream of the statue in a slightly altered composition e.g. statue in color, model b/w and with some blur effect like in a dream.
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Thank you so much for your deep comment! I really appreciate it, as well as your advises.
I collected this series for 3 years, so its concept was not always the same. Sometime I wanted to underline the contrast of cold stone and warm body, in other cases (like here) I tried to show the marble "live". Also, sometime I made compositions so to say "decorative" and symmetric, just to make the whole picture more attractive to an eye
Light for sure was the most difficult part, because in the museum one statue can be statue is illuminated by several light sources of quite different color temperatures...
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I have to say, that was a very clever take on the classic statue. Well done.
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Your work is beautiful,hard to pick a favourite.
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Ne znam kako ste ovo izveli, ali je odliΔno.
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