Left: Anna. Deconstructing Madame X, May 2013. Charcoal, pen, oil pastel, digital media, torched paper. Right (white dress): Zandra Rhodes (British, b. 1940). Wedding Dress, spring/summer 1977. Courtesy of Zandra Rhodes. Right (black dress): Zandra Rhodes (British, b. 1940). Dress, spring/summer 1977. Courtesy of Zandra Rhodes. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. See more gallery views.
«In my drawing at left, I wanted to create a visual response of sorts to what I saw in PUNK: Chaos to Couture, namely the D.I.Y.: Hardware gallery.» In this room, classic evening silhouettes are deconstructed and, if you will, corrupted. I attempted to do the same thing to John Singer Sargent's classic image of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) by breaking her down into flat planes of color scrawled onto burned and frayed paper.
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