à la mondigliani

11th saturday of my 52 portraits of me. the challenge today is to imitate a classic portrait.

i was going to have a redux of rene magritte's son of man which i spoofed three years ago - see here. but most of my clothes are still in the trunk and haven't fully sorted out yet and i just brought my blazers to the cleaners so that was out of the question. i was going to do the "la giaconda" but i look stupid when i have to smile like that (especially when i'm hungry) so that's out, too! but i've been wanting to do mondigliani's "portrait of a polish woman" which i first saw a long time ago in a barbra streisand tv special, so i thought this is the one chance. the only problem is i don't have a long neck (i think i don't have a neck anymore) unlike most of mondigliani's subjects.

i'm thinking it might be a good project to emulate some classic portraits, perhaps for a week. or not!

for reference here is the mondigliani portrait

[☠northy]

Beautifully done... I don't think anyone has a neck like that... that's what PS is for ;p

[summerfield]

@northy - i wouldn't know how to do that in ps. maybe someday. :-)

[Maggiemae]

I think Modigliani sees women in a different way! Like yours much better! Particularly with that nice crisp white shirt!

[katy]

Like this, looking forward to the series

[kali]

you have the oerfect thumbs for this,

[JackieR]

Your portrait's much better, his isn't realistic. Who told him he could pain t???

[Sally Ings]

Perfectly done. You look so at peace with the world!

[Rita]

super portrait, beautifully done and you look so calm

[Lin]

Nicely done!

[Henri Russell]

You look much better. A beautiful portrait.

[Chris Johnson]

Hahaha so awesome how you emulated the classic photo! Well done!

[Hazel]

Your self-portraits are always so inspired!

[Ann H. LeFevre]

Looks like art to me!

[Louise & Ken]

I knew the picture immediately! I think you did it extremely well!