A Great show at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Based on pre and mid surgery elective surgery.
The portrait artist, Yeo examines what the pursuit of physical beauty means in a world where elective surgery is used to re-shape bodies based on ideas that reflect insecure consumer values that feed off that insecurity.
Most of the images are of Mammary Augmentation, showing the acts of line drawing surgeons use on womens' bodies to visualise their aims. The most chilling are those labelled Extended Superficial Muscular - Aponeurotic System Facelift, & the most intriguing those on Reduction Rhinoplasty. Research shows that selfie's on mobiles form notions self-conceptions trhat one has an overlarge nose.
The whole asks where does art begin and finish?
The master works are fragmentary paintings from:
gender reassignment operations (female to male at the point of mammary section) which question what the term 'elective surgery' means;
A beautiful full body portrait in which contours and edges merge of Siena Miller pregnant;
Lilly Cole in a modern Madonna - 'Mother & Child'
Together they ask what and why we select images certain images as 'beautiful' and why we see them that way. Pregnancy being a touch case.
Really worth seeing - this great Northern chateau musuem is coming to life. It also redresses the lack of interest in figural modern and post-modern art in A843.
Jonathan Yeo Skin Deep
A Great show at the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham Based on pre and mid surgery elective surgery.
The portrait artist, Yeo examines what the pursuit of physical beauty means in a world where elective surgery is used to re-shape bodies based on ideas that reflect insecure consumer values that feed off that insecurity.
Most of the images are of Mammary Augmentation, showing the acts of line drawing surgeons use on womens' bodies to visualise their aims. The most chilling are those labelled Extended Superficial Muscular - Aponeurotic System Facelift, & the most intriguing those on Reduction Rhinoplasty. Research shows that selfie's on mobiles form notions self-conceptions trhat one has an overlarge nose.
The whole asks where does art begin and finish?
The master works are fragmentary paintings from:
- gender reassignment operations (female to male at the point of mammary section) which question what the term 'elective surgery' means;
- A beautiful full body portrait in which contours and edges merge of Siena Miller pregnant;
- Lilly Cole in a modern Madonna - 'Mother & Child'
Together they ask what and why we select images certain images as 'beautiful' and why we see them that way. Pregnancy being a touch case.Really worth seeing - this great Northern chateau musuem is coming to life. It also redresses the lack of interest in figural modern and post-modern art in A843.
All the best Steve