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These Princesses Have Fallen Hard
The Disney princesses may have taken over our daughters’ every thought, but these girls are getting whipped in the pop art realm.
First the girls got twisted in paintings and now it’s a photographer who has turned Disney’s most recent profiteers into something a little more disturbing.
Photographer Dina Goldstein says she was inspired by a bunch of three-year-old girls (no, really) to take another look at the princesses. Let’s just say birds won’t be landing on these ladies’ shoulders anytime soon.
Jasmine’s packing some serious heat (and we’re not talking the desert sun), and Belle’s more beast than beauty on a plastic surgeon’s table. The non-Disney set gets its due too with Rapunzel holding her golden locks in one hand while she grips an IV pole with another and Little Red Riding Hood is anything but little sucking down some fast food.
As an artist, can you really blame them for not passing up the inherent mockability of these oh-too-perfect plastic creations? Sure, Cinderella’s just a sweet maid girl with an evil step-monster, but can’t you see a chick like that in a dive like this?
Are you digging the piss on the princess oeuvre or are you already over it?
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Finish Line - Father’s Day And Stuff | Strollerderby commented on Jun 23 09 at 2:15 pm[...] the Disney princesses getting nasty, the princesses falling on hard times and the undead all betray a fascination with the princesses mystique – love it or hate it. Granted, [...]
Disney Princess Trend is Undead | Strollerderby commented on Dec 09 09 at 3:25 pmKnitty commented on Jun 16 09 at 1:23 pmI don’t know, I was sort of horrified by them. Being a stay-at-home-mom makes one “fallen”? Having cancer or alcoholism (both diseases) mean that one has “fallen”? The Jasmine was is particularly gross and does nothing but repeat the stereotype many Americans hold of the middle east. If an artist’s goal is to make us think and re-examine our beliefs, then most of them are a big fail. Oh, and the Little Red Riding Hood one is absoluately awful. Most fat people do NOT sit around eating picnic baskets full of fast food.
maeby commented on Jun 16 09 at 4:26 pmi found them amusing. i dont find all art “deep”. Sometimes its just color on paper.
Marj commented on Jun 16 09 at 11:24 pmI kinda like them. It seems like when you have something as syrupy-sweet as the Princesses can be, that this would be the inevitable backlash. Don’t want it on my walls though. I’d prefer a nice pastoral landscape. I can depress myself without help.
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