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M iss Van, born Vanessa Alice Bensimon in 1973 in Toulouse, France, has long captivated the street art world with her distinctive style, characterised by sensual, feminine imagery and evocative themes.
These are the uneasy muses of Miss Van, the French-born street-artist-turned-fine-art-painter who has spent the last 30 years or so amid an evolving stream of these woman, watching them grow from innocent yet alluring, chubby doll babies into case-hardened warrior babes even a band of fur-bearing fox-snakes couldn’t faze.
The art is coming to you, in ultra-high resolution, gigapixel images from Google Cultural Institute. See extraordinary levels of detail in famous works of art like Vermeer’s Girl with the Pearl Earring and Van Gogh’s Starry Night.
Miss Van's art has been in constant evolution for 30 years, from the young ladies that invaded the walls and streets of Europe with raw illustrative brush strokes in the 90s to the Surrealist exquisite muses living in oil-painted canvases today.
In her artwork, Miss Van typically depicts sloe-eyed women, covering a varied array of female forms and expressing many different emotions. [7] Common themes in her work include eroticism, sexuality, desire and innocence which are represented by animal masks, pastel colors, and revealing clothing.
24 cze 2016 · The characters wear masks, usually reminiscent of wild animals, and have accentuated female features such as long eyelashes and tiny mouths.
31 paź 2022 · The famous painting of “Two M aidens and a Little Boy” by Vietnamese painter To Ngoc Van is on display at Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum in Hanoi. Photo courtesy of the museum
