As Marie Antoinette's reputation diminished in France, an increasing amount of propoganda was used against her (some seen below). I want to take this idea and apply it to my own work about Marie Antoinette's downfall.
Marie Antoinette was renouned for her outragious hair and dresses and this has inspired me to over-exaggerate these features in order to satire my work.
However, I want to take this a stage further and use these features to portray Marie Antoinette's ignorance to conflict occuring in France. For example, for my final piece, If I were to draw a portrait of Marie Antoinette, I thought about using the folds in Antoinette's over blown dresses to hide little scenes, perhaps the storming of the Bastile or the imprisonment of her son Louis-Charles. These little scenes which will be in the shadows of the painting will emphasise Antoinette's inability to see what is happening around her, both physically and metaphorically.
In addition, I have been looking at an artist (currently unknown) who employs the use of material into her paintings. The material almost flows out of the painting and this is really interesting.
I thought I could apply this kind of technique into my final piece and maybe tweak it slightly. Instead of having material flow out from the painting, i could use a material like mod roc to create a 3D 'dress' and underneath the ripples of the 'dress' could be the little scenes that are central to the idea of Marie Antoinette's ignorance. After speaking to my teacher, we thought aboout the idea of drawing my illustrations onto very light fabric, sewing them together and attaching them as the material of Marie Antoinette's dress. I could also screen print the same illustration onto the dress, which could be made of paper.
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