Drawing on the various histories of her artistic heroines, the paintings are
fictional portraits inspired by everyone from spooky poet Emily Dickinson to abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner and theorist Susan Sontag — though the models she uses bear no physical resemblance to these icon references.
Not exact matches
Inspired by science, landscapes,
portraits, and
fictional worlds, the artist wants to create new interpretations of our environment.
And we also see Ms. Sherman, already creating the sort of
fictional self -
portraits,
inspired by movies and girlie magazines, that would lead to her renowned «Untitled Film Stills.»