For reasons that are obvious now that we’re no longer five years old, Barbie often gets a bad rap. But once upon a time, the little plastic doll with the impossible proportions was one of our most beloved toys. We’re assuming that it was the same for a French woman named Jocelyne Grivaud who is hoping to change the way that we see Barbie by incorporating her image into some of art history’s most famous works. Click through to see Barbie as everyone from Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring to Warhol’s Marilyn, and let us know in the comments which remixed work of art is your favorite.
Andy Warhol
Man Ray
Guy Bourdin
Pablo Picasso
Otto Dix
Leornardo Da Vinci
Vénus de Milo
Johannes Vermeer
Edouard Manet
René Magritte
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Comments (6)
Guy Bourdin’s version is the best because Barbie’s have distorted young girls’ ideas of female image long enough and must now be gone.
I personally love the barbie version of Vénus de Milo. There is something very pleasant about barbie being white washed, without her painted on make up and blonde hair.I think its beautiful.
Nice works,very comical indeed
Love the Venus and the Vermeer
Very interesting details you have remarked, thanks for putting up. “It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.” by David Hume.
These are really neat, but my biggest gripe is the Mona Lisa – the head tilt is what MAKES that picture what it is and they didn’t nail it.
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