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X-ray of painting showing original pose. Young Girl Reading, or The Reader (French: La Liseuse), is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard.It depicts an unidentified girl seated in profile, wearing a lemon yellow dress with white ruff collar and cuffs and purple ribbons, and reading from a small book held in her right hand.
Depicted as sitting on the ground, the figure assumes an informal and provocative pose. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 5 ] Although in a relaxed pose and at ease, [ 1 ] [ 9 ] Schiele's model has also been conversely described as "charged with a nervous energy", [ 2 ] and the piece has been described as having an "aggressiveness". [ 9 ]
A woman in seiza performing a Japanese tea ceremony. Prior to the Edo period, there were no standard postures for sitting on the floor. [1] During this time, seiza referred to "correct sitting", which took various forms such as sitting cross-legged (胡坐, agura), sitting with one knee raised (立て膝, tatehiza), or sitting to the side (割座, wariza), while the posture commonly known as ...
Sitting kneel: where the thighs are near horizontal and the buttocks sit back on the heels with the upper body vertical - for example as in Seiza, Virasana, and Vajrasana (yoga) Taking a knee: where the upper body is vertical, one knee is touching the ground while the foot of the other leg is placed on the ground in front of the body
The dress was completed with mesh fabric on the bodice, a thigh-high slit and a cascading train. For glam, the hip hop star rocked metallic eye shadow and wore her hair in a sleek coiffure.
Fashion illustration is the art of communicating fashion ideas in a visual form through the use of drawing tools or design-based software programs. It is mainly used by fashion designers to brainstorm their ideas on paper or digitally. Fashion illustration plays a major role in design - it enables designers to preview garment ideas before they ...
La Bella Principessa (English: "The Beautiful Princess"), also known as Portrait of Bianca Sforza, Young Girl in Profile in Renaissance Dress and Portrait of a Young Fiancée, is a portrait in coloured chalks and ink, on vellum, of a young lady in fashionable costume and hairstyle of a Milanese of the 1490s. [1]
Fanning kept the Michael Kors design looking put-together with sparse accessorizing, only adding a large diamond ring to her left hand. To complement the retro feel of her gown, the actor styled ...