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Dutch Visual Artist Collaborated With Doll Makers To Create Surreal Art
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Dutch Visual Artist Collaborated With Doll Makers To Create Surreal Art

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JM Art Management is thrilled to announce the most exclusive Fine Art Photography collaboration between award-winning doll makers Popovy Sisters, and Dutch visual artist Ingrid Baars.

“As a child I was very passionate about dolls and whenever I got to choose one for myself I totally focused on her facial features above anything else. Of course it had to be a doll with great beauty but more important it had to be alive, as much alive as possible. It had to have a soul.

When I came across the work of the Popovy Sisters I was really excited.

Of course I was captivated by the beauty of their art-dolls, the Haute Couture and the finesse of their work but above all I was fascinated about the same edge between a living–creature with a soul and an innate object, a very fine line that I investigate in my own work as well.

There were more things in common; the large heart shaped heads, the elongated neck, the curly sexual lips, eyes put far apart.

The way the childish, the infantile is combined with strong features and expressions of grown up women is exactly what I also discovered in classical African masks and sculptures where part of my inspiration stems from for the series ‘Afrique’ that I’m working on (e.g. In Fang sculptures the artists show the connection between death and rebirth by combining infantile forms with that of adults).

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Following each other from a distance for a while it seemed logical when I was asked by the Sisters to collaborate and have one of their dolls be my model for once.”

~ Ingrid Baars

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Limited Edition Prints

Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta, 315 grs.

Both signed on reverse by Ingrid Baars & The Popovy Sisters

35″ x 40″ inch edition of 12

22″ x 25″ inch edition of 12

More info: jmartmanagement.com

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    boner yard
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    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So tired of the ppl who post what "laypersons" would think is art because it's a drawing of something a "layperson" feel they could not do. It's not art honey...wakka wakka wakka

    boner yard
    Community Member
    6 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So tired of the ppl who post what "laypersons" would think is art because it's a drawing of something a "layperson" feel they could not do. It's not art honey...wakka wakka wakka

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