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”
Another in this series is “Pierrette”, the female version of Pierott. A french clown made popular thru the 15th century, depicted in heavy white makeup and melancholy demeanour . The white face symbolic of the mask we put on to hide our true feelings. Here Pierrette cries even when surrounded by her beloved city of Paris, and tells her sad story to a small bird.
“Pierrette” is also the story of who Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze, better known as Marie Lavoisier and “mother of modern chemistry”.
Marie-Anne was a chemist and was credited with “assisting” her famous husband in the study of Chemistry. She was known to to do all the note taking in English and French, and her documentation and analysis’s forms the bases of Chemistry today. She is considered the Mother of Chemistry.
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”.
