Reconstruction

I looked at another piece of work by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, who is also the artist who painted 'The Swing'. This particular painting is called 'The Reader', and it is of a young woman in a yellow dress reading a small book. Shed looks extremely elegant, and the clothes that she is wearing reminds me very much of a later time period, such as the 18th Century. She looks like she is quite an intellectual girl, and would rather spend her time reading and educating herself, then going out and mixing with other people such as the woman in 'The Swing'.
I chose to reconstruct this photo myself, looking at it from two different perspectives.

This is my first reconstruction. I decided to try and capture the elegance of the girl, by positioning my model in the sale upright position, with her hair tied back off of her face and pearls placed around her neck. The lighting is that of the day time, showing that instead of going out in the day, she spends her time indoors and bettering herself.

This is my second reconstruction, and this is what teenagers nowadays stereotypically are more likely to be found doing. Instead of sitting elegantly upright, her posture in this photo is quite the opposite. She is slouching in a relaxed position, and instead of reading a book to better herself, she is reading a magazine as a form of personalo entertainment. Her top is much lower cut, and her hair is down. The lighting is also a lot warmer, therefore suggesting that she is up much later then she should be.