Some unbeatable outfits!
Sorry I must post late b/c I have to wait for my photographer.
Looking at the painting I felt relaxed and not at ease all at once. Something was off, strange, I couldn't pinpoint what. When you know it must be right in front of your eyes yet you can't see it. So I took a long hard look at it.
The painting inspired time off, vacation, relaxation, freedom even because of the nudity, yet there was something dark, austere about it. And suddenly I started to see how this painting is all about binary oppositions and contrasts. It's a perfect painting for bold color blocking or stripes.
The body is white and nude, yes, but all the same contained, restricted by the black stripes or shadow that fall on it.
The model is young (blondness) and the bust represents old age.
The model is a woman, the bust a man.
The face... something about the face... upside down, an unnatural position... and the skin of the model... white... bluish purplish white... maybe the model is not sleeping there, maybe she is dead? And around her, the contrast of living plant... fruits (of life) on a plate (yet dead nature, in French nature morte...).
Finally, my eyes moved back to the face. Let's look at it differently. You know those illusion games where in one profile you can see another profile? Look at the upside down profile of the nude model ignoring the body, now imagine those line represent an upright profile facing right. You will find the upright profile of a man. Reclining. With a very satisfied expression on his face. And below.. can you see it? The woman's thumb becomes... !!!
Is it me who is obsessed or what? Yet I'm sure it`s not by chance that her thumb is sticking out like this.
Anyway, on to today's outfit.
Since the painting has both a carefree and a dark side, below are two outfits.
In the first photo, how I had planned to dress according to the painting. I would have loved to include a small detail in lemon yellow but now unfortunately I own nothing in this color.
In the following pictures, how I ended up having to dress, due to our lousy weather.
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