Modernmasters

ModernMasters

Dutch Design Week Graduation  Show 2020
Impromptu Mini Graduation Show #2 2021‍

IJK Software & Services 2021-2022

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In the era of the selfie, this project challenges our scrutinized self-image. Leanne van Hees turned to the Rijksmuseum to research the concept of beauty throughout the ages. The painted portraits by the Old Masters were a status symbol for both the artists and their models and are still seen as magnificent. Playfully addressing our obsession with the perfect picture to post, Leanne designed a digital tool that creates portraits of today’s faces in the style of admired paintings. Fed with the Rijksmuseum’s digital collection, a cleverly written code renders your reflection into a timeless beauty; are you ready to see yourself as a precious piece of art? ‍

“The timeless beauty collection defies our current beauty standard.”

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Pictures:  Ronald Smits and Leanne van Hees
 Models: Erik Melander and Onno Dijkhuis
 Referentie: Johannes Gumpp (1646), Rectangular version of the self-portrait,  in a private collection
 Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks - Phillip Isola, Jun-Yan Zhu,  Tinghui Zhou, Alexei A. Efros and @affinelayer for the tensorflow
  DCGAN and @carpedm20 for the tensorflow
 Tensorflow ‍
 Memo Akten (2017) ''Learning to Dream''. Retrieved from  http://www.memo.tv/works/we-are-made-of-star-dust/

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 Sponsor: Deblick https://www.deblick.com/
 Special thanks: Sjoerd Aker, Tim Speetjens, Boris Krischel, Jacqueline Janssen and Joep Verhoeven.

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