Description
“Here’s to strong women – may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. ”
A new series of designs depicting portraits of “Women Who Made History”
Strong women. Independent women. Resilient women.
Next in this series is Marilyn Monroe. Monroe started the wave of women using their sexuality as a tool in films and characterized the image of “the dumb blonde”. Monroe captivates the attention of film historians and enthusiasts because, in movie history, she is somewhat of an enigma. To elaborate, she was the most desirable sex symbol on film, with beauty and charismatic energy that we may never see again. Marilyn was strong and fragile; fearless and afraid; happy and sad; lucid and incoherent; praised and scorned; innocuous and scandalous; liberated and enslaved; glamorous and disheveled; privileged and poor; desired and rejected. These many emotional attributes which would make her so universally appealing, would be later considered the results of her undiagnosed bipolar personality. Marilyn reminds us all to be strong, be heard and that we are so much more than our physical appearance.
This design is a stylised portrait with strong geometric elements with a nod to the artwork of Modigliani and Leger, maybe even Picasso but with the emphasis on pride and celebration of “Women Who Made History”.