"My final artwork Beauty is… challenges the concept that beauty is solely reliant upon one’s aesthetic value, according to mercurial subjective standards. My body of six realistic oil-paint portraits depicts individuals who do not fit these standards in an attempt to challenge the audience’s perceptions of beauty. Each portrait is symbolic of various expressions of human nature. To develop my theme and ideas of beauty, I was originally inspired by how notions of beauty have historically evolved throughout Western society, primarily since the Renaissance, and how conceptions of beauty appear today. My portraits interact with the audience through symbolism and form, to convey the salience of societal harmony and overcoming adversity.

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