The team over at ArtFido combined face morphing software with art history, and the result is something special: a video that features nearly 100 portraits of women painted over the course of 500 years. Various art styles by many famous artists are represented in the short video, and ArtFido published a list of each artwork so that viewers can see how well they know their painters.
As Isha Aran of Jezebel points out, most of the women depicted in the video are pretty and white, which is definitely problematic. The addition of works by artists like Mickalene Thomas, Kehinde Wiley, Frida Kahlo, or a number of other painters would have given this project some much needed diversity and could have resulted in a more powerful message about the evolution of portraiture.
Another issue is that the math is way off. The first painting, a piece titled Angel of the Golden Locks, is from the middle of the 12th century, and the most recent is Salvador Dali's Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat from 1954, making the span greater than 500 years. All that aside, the video is worth checking out.
[via Jezebel]
