This is absolutely amazing! I hope I not slow on the uptake and you good people have already seen it. It’s a clip of the faces of women over 500 years of Western Art. Fabulous!
That’s great.
I’m sending the link to my art-school daughter.
Simply beautiful.
Wow – somebody put a lot of work into that. Even if they could automate the distortions somewhat, there’s so much fine detail in some of the morphs, such as they eyes turning toward or away from you late in the transition – that’s haunting.
It’s been done here before but it’s still one of my favorite clips circulating on the web. Great music and very good editing.
That’s the sarabande from Bach’s cello suite no. 1 in G major.
Very cool clip!
Nicely done.
I have already forwarded it on to many friends and intend to show it to my classes next week.
Thanks!
That one has been around for a long time but I like the next one on the site - line dancing to Iron Butterfly
I don’t get that one. I just see four people doing a kinda boring little dance. What do I miss? I don’t have music, does that have anything to do with it?
Great clip. Just thought I’d point out a good example of Gaudere’s Law.
It must say something about me that I’m (re)watching it to “She’s on Fire.” 
I liked it, of course. I never realized how they had a “beauty type” even back then. The older pictures also just looked so much more innocent than the sexy/beautiful women of today.
Who’s the redhead at 1:37? Looks Bouguereau to me, but what do I know.
Wow! That is great. One thing that amazes me is how little our idea of beauty has changed over the years. Body shape, yes, but facial, very little.
I’d do any one of them. By “do” I mean have a intelligent conversation with.
Well, there was a Picasso in there, wasn’t there.
Peace,
mangeorge
I was wondering about the lady at 1:30 myself.
The painting is A Portrait Of A Young Lady by Eugene de Blaas. This helpful site has the full list:
Well, the one just after is Comerre. The one just before is Wontner. You mean the one with the eyes slightly down, half-smile, hand on shoulder, right? No clue.
Awesome! Thank you!
And I note the Straun’s was Bouguereau, my previous guess for the de Blaas portrait. :smack:
I’m impressed with the technical expertise and patience involved but otherwise not impressed. All human faces come with two eyes, a nose and a mouth and they can all be easily morphed from one to the other.
The women there didn’t really look all that similar to me, and you could easily morph in different ethnicities and even men and draw the same basic conclusion - human faces are interesting and all come with two eyes, a nose, a mouth and they’re all stuck to the front of your head in basically the same way.
Sorry to be a party pooper but I’m not sure what I was supposed to learn from this. Any first semester art student could tell you the basic, aesthetically pleasing proportions of the human face. No?
I don’t think it was the morphing itself that was so impressive. We’ve all grown accustomed to seeing that. It was the choice of subjects, and which followed which, as well as the composition and framing for just the right sense of proportion. Very well done indeed. And yes, beautiful too.