The Gibson Girl is the feminine ideal personification of physical appeal as illustrated by the illustration of pen-and ink artist Charles Dana Gibson during a 20-year period spanning the late 20th and early 20th centuries in the United States and Canada. The artist sees his creation as representing a mixture of "thousands of American girls."
Video Gibson Girl
Images
The Gibson Girl image that emerged in the 1890s combined elements of older American images of contemporary women's beauty, such as "fragile women" and "exciting women." From the "fragile woman" she takes a basic slender line, and a sense of honor. From a "passionate woman" he takes large breasts and hips, but is not vulgar or obscene, just like the pictures of previous women with large breasts and hips have been described. From this combination comes the Gibson Girl, who is tall and slim, but with enough chest, hips and buttocks. He has an exaggerated S-curve body shape that is achieved by wearing a goose-billet corset. The images symbolize the West's preoccupation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with the characteristics of youth and mortal beauty. Her neck is thin and her hair is piled high in her head in modern clothing, pompadour, and bun ("curls"). Feminine feminine figures in narrow-sided and narrow-sized portrayed as a relaxed and stylish figure.
She is a member of the upper middle class society, always dressed perfectly in the latest fashionable clothes that are appropriate for place and time. The Gibson Girl is also one of the more athletic new women, who can be found cycling through Central Park, often done and released as far as she can enter the workplace. In addition to the beautiful beauty of Gibson Girl, in the spirit, he is calm, independent, confident, and seeking personal satisfaction. He can be described attending college and competing for a good partner, but he will never participate in the voting movement.
Taking part in the voting movement is something more related to the New Woman, another cultural image of the woman who appears around the same time as the Gibson Girl. As the more popular version of the New Woman, Gibson Girl undermines and approves women's desire for progressive social and political change. The New Woman is more confusing than the two images at the time because it is seen as an example of change and disturbance in the old pattern of the social order, asking for the right to equal education and work opportunities as well as progressive reform, sexual freedom and suffrage. While Gibson Girl takes on many characteristics of the New Woman, she does so without involving herself in politics and thus does not seem contemporarily at that time will seize the traditional role of masculine as a New Woman is considered. He therefore managed to stay within the confines of the feminine role without too many abuses.
Gibson described it as the same companion and sometimes tempting for men. She is also sexually dominant, for example, literally checking out a cute little man under a magnifying glass, or, in a breezy way, crushing them under his feet. In addition to the beauty of Gibson Girl, men often appear as fools or bumblers; and even a man with a handsome physique or great wealth alone can not satisfy him. Gibson illustrates the man who is so interested in his appearance that they will follow him anywhere, trying to fulfill any desire, even if it does not make sense. An impressive picture shows stunned people following Gibson Girl's orders to plant a young tree that is not leafy upside down, rooted in the air, just because he wants it that way. Most often, a Gibson Girl appears single and unbound. However, romance always eliminates his boredom. After marriage, he seems very frustrated if romantic love has disappeared from his life, but satisfied if socializing with a boyfriend or happy when loving baby baby. In these pictures there is no clue to push the boundaries of women's roles, instead they often associate the old beliefs held by many from the old social order, rarely describing the Gibson Girl who took part in any visible activity. as amazing for a woman.
Artists believe that Gibson Girl represents the beauty of American women:
I will tell you how I got what you call 'Gibson Girl.' I saw him on the street, I saw him in the cinema, I saw him in churches. I see it everywhere and do everything. I saw him stay on Fifth Avenue and work behind the counter of the store... [T] he nation makes his type. What Zang would call 'Melting Pot of Races' has produced certain characters; why should not it also turn into a certain facial type?... There is no 'Gibson Girl', but there are thousands of American girls, and for that let's all thank God.
Gibson believes that Gibson's American Girl will be prettier:
They are undoubtedly the most beautiful of all their sexes... In the United States, of course, where natural selection has taken place, as elsewhere, and where, more than elsewhere, it is a very variation great to choose from. American women will eventually become prettier than women today. His claim to the difference will result from a good combination of the best points of all the many races that have helped make our population.
Many women pose for Gibson Girl style illustrations, including Gibson's wife, Irene Langhorne who may be the original model, and Viscountess Nancy (Langhorne) Astor sister. Other models include Evelyn Nesbit, and Minnie Clark. The most famous Gibson Girl may be the Belgian-American stage actress Camille Clifford, who has tall and long hairstyles, elegant dresses wrapped around her hourglass figure and a tight corset with a waistline depicting the style.
Among the many illustrators of "Gibson Girl" is Howard Chandler Christy whose work celebrates the American "beauty" similar to Gibson's work, and Harry G. Peter, best known for his artwork in the Wonder Woman comics.
In the newly emerging cinema art, although most of the leading actresses are in the cutting style of the day, the people who come to realize the best are the Biography girls, Florence Lawrence and for the more interesting side, Mary Pickford. They personify and catapult the worship of the ideal woman for the masses outside the American border. Camille Clifford, a woman known as the "ideal Girl Gibson", poses for various photographers and produces photographs showing the physical characteristics of Gibson Girl.
Maps Gibson Girl
Popularity
Some people argue that Gibson Girl is the first national beauty standard for American women. Gibson's fictional images of her published in newspapers and magazines during Belle's ÃÆ'â € poque are very popular. Merchandise containing images include placemats, ashtrays, tablecloths, pillowcases, chair covers, souvenir spoons, screens, fans, and umbrella stands.
With the outbreak of World War I, changing the mode caused the Gibson Girls to be disliked because the women liked compatible clothing with time changing over elegant dresses, bustle dresses, shirts, and multilevel skirts favored by Gibson Girl. However, the picture was not forgotten, with the ASAF World War II survival strike of the SCR-578 era (and similar post-war AN/CRT-3) carried by aircraft on water operations given the nickname "Gibson Girl" Due to the " hourglass ", allowing them to be held between the legs when the handle of the generator is turned.
See also
- Corset controversy
- Flapper
- John Held, Jr.
- Nell Brinkley
References
Further reading
- Patterson, Martha H. (2005). Beyond the Gibson Girl: New Concept of New American Women, 1895-1915 . University of Illinois Press. ISBNÃ, 9780252030178
- Patterson, Martha H. (2008). New American Women Revisited: 1894-1930 . New Brunswick: Rutgers Press University. ISBNÃ, 978-0813542966
- Pollard, Percival (June 1897). "It's hot" American Girls "in Black-And-White". Book Buyers: Current Reviews and Literature Notes . XIV (5): 474-478 . Retrieved July 27, 2009 .
External links
- Vreeland, Diana. American style woman: an exhibit. Metropolitan Museum of Art Publications. OCLCÃ, 907998085.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments