Real dream woman

2024 · 80 x 60 cm, acrylic on canvas

I drew a busty, long-legged woman. She has stretch marks and pimples on her chest, body hair, and undyed hair roots. She is imperfect, but on the wall of her room we literally see photographs of her, in which she poses sexually with makeup, hair styling, and she is dressed in “feminine” outfits and high-heeled shoes. This woman is literally a supermodel, her professional photographs are perceived as the standard of beauty, but in everyday life she looks the way she wants, and she doesn’t care about the opinions of others. She adores herself and accepts the natural form of her body. Every day we see perfect women in advertising, in fashion magazines, on Instagram and on TikTok. Their figures are flawless, their skin is unnaturally smooth, their faces are doll-like, they wear a lot of makeup and sexy clothes. Sometimes you can hear or read comments that these women from the media are the absolute ideal, and it’s a shame that you don’t meet them in everyday life, because now women are unattractive. But behind the layer of makeup, behind the push-up bra, behind the hair styling, uncomfortable clothes and shoes, there are real women. They are still incredibly beautiful, but society normally perceives them as ugly and unfeminine. For a patriarchal society, female beauty is a fancy dress consisting of many elements. The more complex this costume is, the more beautiful you are. But when you take it off, you cease to be a woman in their opinion. You become an unattractive monster for people who continue to be sad because all the beauties are only in magazines and social networks, and in ordinary life it is impossible to meet the dream woman.