The above is the slightly disturbing creation of French artist Jocelyne Grivaud who has re-produced famous artworks of women using a Barbie doll as the model. The barbie Vermeer (my personal favourite) results in a rather more seductive and domineering Girl with a Pearl Earring than the wide-eyed beauty in the Hague.
Under the pretence of 'charting how the ideal female form has changed' Grivaud has had the doll amputated (as Venus de Milo), de-robed (as Manet's Olympia) and in a fantastic rendition of Otto Dix's Sylvia von Harden shown her smoking with a monocle.
See below for all 9 recreations:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2012/jan/29/fine-art-posed-by-barbies?CMP=twt_gu#/?picture=385148475&index=6
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