Ophelia
is the most static and one-dimensional. She has the potential to become a tragic heroine (to overcome the adversities inflicted upon her) but she instead crumbles into insanity, becoming merely tragic. She represents something very different. To those who are not blinded by hurt and rage, she is the epitome of goodness. Very much like Gertrude, young Ophelia is childlike and naive. Unlike Queen Gertrude, she has good reason to be unaware of the harsh realities of life.
GREEKS 3RD MILLENIUM B C
PUBLIC NUDITY + OBSESSION TOWARDS THE BODY + BEAUTY DRESS CODE CHITONS + HIMATIONS Most styles were made from a big, rectangular piece of fabric, crafted to create tunics. Women usually wore several styles of chitons, like Ionian and Doric (another name for this style was a peplos). Chitons and peplos could be worn with a belt or without. Men also wore chitons, plus himations, which were long cloaks, or chlamys, which were short cloaks. Their chitons were also Ionian and Doric, though the Doric was worn mainly by women, not men.
ARTS & CRAFTS
The Arts and Crafts movement initially developed in England during the latter half of the 19th century. The movement advocated truth to materials and traditional craftsmanship using simple forms and often medieval, romantic or folk styles of decoration. It also proposed economic and social reform and has been seen as essentially anti-industrial. INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION OF DESIGN OBJECTS + NATURE LIFE + ROMANTICISM JOHN RUSKIN + WILLIAM MORRIS DRESS CODE & IMAGE
MEDIEVAL DRESSES WITHOUT CORSETTE + REDHEADS + SEXUAL LIBERATION OPHELIA + ELIZABETH SEAGAL ART FOR ART’S SAKE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT BEAUTY COMES FIRST
BEAUTY
“Beautiful” together with “graceful” and “pretty”, or “sublime,” “marvelous,””superb, ”and similar expressions, is an adjective that we often employ to indicate something that we like. In this sense, it seems that what is beautiful is the same as what is good, and in fact in various historical periods there was a close link between the Beautiful and the Good. THE AESTHETIC IDEAL IN ANCIENT GREECE “ONLY WHAT WHICH IS BEAUTIFUL IS LOVED, THAT WHICH IS NOT BEAUTIFUL IS NOT LOVED.” “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IS THE MOST JUST”
THE GREEKS ALSO HAD A LATENT MISTRUST OF POETRY, WHICH WAS TO QUENTLY BEAUTY; MAY GLADDEN THE EYE OR THE MIND, BUT THEY ARE THE THEME OF BEAUTY IS SO FREQUENTLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE TROJ
O BECOME EXPLICIT WITH PLATO: ART AND POETRY LAND CONSENOT DIRECTLY CONNECTED TO TRUTH. NOR IS IT AN ACCIDENT THAT JAN WAR. “BEAUTY IS ALL THAT PLEASES”
Contrary to what was later believed, Greek sculpture did not idealize and abstract body, but rather sought an ideal Beauty through a síntesis of living bodies, a síntesis that became the Vehicle for the expresión of a phylosophysical Beauty that harmonized body and soul was the ideal underpinning “KALOKAGATHÍA”, the noblest expressions of which are the poems of Sappho and the sculptures of Praxiteles. MODERATION + HARMONY + SIMMETRY + PROPORTION
ROMANTIC BEAUTY
Romantic beauty, which inherited the realismo of passion from the sentimental novel, is an exploration of the relationship with destiny that characterizes the Romantic hero. Deprived of its ideal component, the very concept of Beauty was profoundly modified. Romantic portrayals of Beauty are not foreign to nineteenth-century opera. In Verdi, Beauty often verges on the territories of Darkness, the satanic, and the grotesque. ART FOR ART’S SAKE
As the decadent sensibility was forming, painters like Courbet human reality and nature, democratizing the Romantic landscape the Humble presence of country people and common folk.
and Miller were still tending Howard a realística interpretation of and bringing it back to an everyday reality made up of labor, toil, and “The languid sweetness of the autumn of a culture (all refined colors, exquisite shades, and delicate, subtle sensations); admiration for the World of the Renaissance; and the subordination of all other values to Beauty (it would appear that when someone once posed him with the question “Why should we be good?” he replied: “Because it’s so very beautiful”).” The epiphany is an ecstasy, but an ecstasy without God: it is not transendence, but the soul of the things of this World, it is a materialista ecstasy.
As a result from the combination of the historical period (Greeks), and the nineteenth Century counterculture (Arts & Crafts). I decided to extract the Basic and most important premises from each one, with the purpose of finding the common elements between these cultures. I had a main result, which I would define as the most important: Beauty. The Canons of Beauty were not so different between the Greeks and the Romantics. As a focal point I chose a character from the 19th Century in whom I gather these chosen premises: Ophelia. This fashion shooting is basically inspired in the female character Ophelia from the Hamlet play by William Shakespeare. In order to bring the historical period and the 19th Century counterculture, I chose Beauty as the embassador that would bring all these premises to the present, creating a portrait of a woman in which this shooting is inspired.
PORTRAIT PREMISES Proportion among the parts. Aesthetic Canons Symmetry Splendor Form Moral beauty Harmony Proportion Sexual Liberation Nudity
COLORS
FABRICS LYCRA COTTON VINIL
Ophelia GRAPHIC DESIGN: DAVIDE LOMEZ PHOTOGRAPHY BY: ALDO AYLLON STYLING, MAKE UP AND CLOTHING: AIDEE CEBALLOS MODEL: MONICA VALLEJO PHOTOGRAPHY ASISTANT: CESAR PERCASTRE STYLING ASISTANT: NINO ARANI