Help with art GCSE final piece ideas?

Question

i am basing my course on the pre raphaelites (change/transformation) LIFE/DEATH etc. but for my final piece i recreated the 'Ophelia' piece by Millias. However, that picture reflected woman during that time and was surrounded by plants and nature. Do you think i should incorporate nature into my piece and how could i make mine original and reflect modern woman???

Answer 1

I often think that some shampoo advertisements owe their creative inspiration to Millais’ Ophelia for their appearance – particularly some for Herbal Essences, (of course they totally ignore the tragic nature of Shakespeare’s character). This connection between Pre-Raphaelite and modern advertising imagery can also be extended to others, like John William Waterhouse’s Nymphs. Whether it is true or not many products like to promote themselves as “natural” it is, they believe, appealing to modern women, a cynic might observe that it is riding the back of fears of global warming and general ecologic awareness.

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Answer 2

if you were doing change and transformation you could do a picture (large) of a young woman looking in the mirror, and her feflection is herself decayed and zombie like - ages and changed - moving!

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