Alice Sharivker

Life Imitating Art

Life Imitating Art: To sit, and appreciate the artwork in a gallery can be overwhelming, but for some, pretty underwhelming. This illustration depicts a young woman staring off into the distance, showing that the portrait beside her (based on the portrait “Young Woman (Melancholia)", c.a. 1833-1835, Théodore Chassériau), is doing the same action. Maybe they both are bored with the same thing. Or maybe that this girl is a reincarnation of the woman in the portrait. No one is really to know, but one thing is certain, they both seem bored at whatever they are doing.