A Delicate Glance
After visiting Le Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris I was charmed by French painter and printmaker Marie Laurencin. Giving preference to a light pink and blue tones, Marie Laurencin created numerous portraits of women and children. Her work lies outside the bounds of Cubist norms in her pursuit of a specifically feminine aesthetic by her use of pastel colors and curvilinear forms. Laurencin's insistence on the creation of a visual vocabulary of femininity, which characterized her art until the end of her life, can be seen as a response to what some consider to be the arrogant masculinity of Cubism. Inspired by Marie Laurencin’s portraits I decided to do own soft portraits of women and children. Like a base I used masterpieces Marie Laurencin. Each portrait is totally manual made. First, I was thinking about style and concept of each model. Then I made portraits in studio using roll film and Sinar camera making 8 shoots for each model trying to catch originality of model and in the same time to make Laurencin mood and atmosphere. Then negatives were manually developed and printed using classic method - silver gelatin on matt paper. In the end of process I painted all portraits using pastel colors which finally helped to create atmosphere of portraits Marie Laurencin.