Beauty Hurts

This is one of my favourite paints that I have created. I used acrylic paint and pencil crayon for her skin. This took me quite some time to complete but I believe that I have done a really good job. This image is of a girl who i crying. Her tears can be interrupted in many different ways; tears of joy, sadness, guilt, or anger. However, to me her tears are that no matter how hard she may try, she will never be good enough.

This is related to society today as most girls struggle with beauty and trying to make themselves look like the girls on the cover of magazines and how they don't look like that. Everyone is created unique and everyone is beautiful, you don't need to look like the girls to the magazines to be that.



This art movement is Pop Art and it was created during the mid and late 1950s. One of the famous artists during this time was Eduardo Paolozzi.

I was inspired to paint this by a similar photo however I changed a few colours to make it my own in a way.