Doll Parts
by Marmite Sue/Eli Effenberger
Tags: dolls, injuries, medical-themed, sweet/melancholy
Prosthetic Doll Leg
I blogged earlier about Marina Bychkova‘s doll creations. She sometimes tattoos her porcelain dolls with the most intricate and interesting designs. I’m just posting this, a doll leg painted as a vintage prosthetic, because it’s so cool.
This doll is based on the tragic literary figure Anna Karenina (if she had survived her ultimate suicide attempt with major damages to her body, consequently having to wear an orthopedic corset, arm brace, and prosthetic left leg). Images of the rest of the doll after the cut.
Tags: dolls, marina bychkova, medical-themed, porcelain, prosthetic
Little Framed Tragedies: The Art of Larissa Kulik
Each one of Larissa Kulik’s dark and whimsical photomanipulations is framed in a way that tells a story in that single, frozen image. Strings and ropes are a recurring motif, suggesting bondage and the threads of fate. These snapshots-of-dark-fairy-tales, filled with symbolic objects, are unique in the way they’re composed, and often the boundaries of the picture itself are pointed out and lovingly inscribed and decorated, so that each work is a lushly melancholy story-rich image framing itself. Her framed stories are instantly recognizable.
Tags: dolls, modern fairy tales, photomanipulation, victorian
Dolls by Lena and Katya Popova
Lena and Katya Popova are sisters who make the most amazing art dolls. These are from their “Fashion Moon” doll lamp series.
Tags: dolls, geisha-inspired, victorian
Doll Parts – The Art of Lost Fish
“Doll Parts” is the aptly named latest exhibition of Elodie/Lost Fish. Lost Fish mixes innocence with sexuality and evil in her precious, delightful illustrations. Uber-cute, teary-eyed tiny girls with a melancholy expression, bud mouths, hyperrealistic porcelain-white faces and rouged cheeks are the subjects of her painstakingly rendered digital art. Baby faces and symbols of childhood abound. There are murderous-seeming aristocrats, darling deformities of children, lovelorn cyborgs, and all the accoutrements of such precious beings, including teacups, cakes, ribbons, flowers, and pet creatures. They seem yearning, hurt, vulnerable, and wicked by turns. There are Lolita, fetish, and cyberpunk overtones. The resultant imagery is almost too cute for words: the epitome of innocent and corrupted dollflesh.
Tags: animals, babies, cute little girls, dolls, fetish, lost fish, pop surrealism, sweet/melancholy, victorian
Victorian Porcelain Dolls: The Art of Natalie Shau
Natalie Shau is a well-known artist within the world of gothic, cutesy/dark, Pop Surreal, Victorian-inspired art.
She is a Lithuanian digital artist who creates these beautiful, frail, porcelain-textured female figures hailing from the imaginary Victorian world, replete with distorted/exaggerated features, giant glassy eyes, milk-honey skin – a combination of glossy realism and unreality. They appear to be vulnerable, hurt, exploited, and dangerous, powerful, razor-edged at the same time.
Shau often uses herself as a subject for her works, and is gorgeous in her own right. She cites “religious imagery, fairytale illustrations, classic horror literature, and classic Russian literature” as some of her inspirations.
Tags: cute, dark, dolls, natalie shau, photomanipulation, self-portraits, victorian
Marina Bychkova’s Enchanted Dolls
Marina Bychkova makes the most beautiful ball-jointed dolls. They are incredibly detailed, costumed, and decorated with body art. Made of porcelain rather than plastic, they are exquisite creations evocative of the melancholy side of fairy tales.
Tags: dolls, modern fairy tales, porcelain, sweet/melancholy
Edo-Period Japanese Pregnancy Dolls
How cool are these obstetrical dolls from 19th-century Japan? They are so realistic, highly detailed with articulated limbs, and even little models of the fetus in various stages of development.
It’s like creepy modern-day installation art.
Via Pink Tentacle
Tags: dolls, edo-period japan, sideshows
Dolls and Gals: The Art of Caryn Drexl
Caryn Drexl is a remarkable and original experimental photographer based in Palm Coast, Florida. Her photography is conceptual and expressive, and explores themes of innocence, femininity, motherhood, and sexuality. It also has a vintage aspect/aesthetic. Teacups, baby dolls, divested braids of hair (and hair in general), things in models’ mouths are all motifs. Many of her photographs feature her as the subject.
Tea TimeTags: 1920s, caryn drexl, dolls, femininity, hair, teacups, victorian, vintage
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