Where: Season 5, episode 19
DAN: So after that, we have a Cindy Sherman exhibit we can check out at the M. O. M. A. And then tonight, there’s a new restaurant that opened
BLAIR: I-I’m sorry, Dan. Cindy Sherman and her unflattering self-portraits aside, it sounds like you planned a perfect day. But it’s going to have to wait.
As this dialogue between Dan and Blair can attest, one of Queen Bee dislikes is artist Cindy Sherman. She find her photography unflattering. Fair enough, we understand that. Here is a description of Sherman, taken from the MOMA web site:
Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite.
I have to say it sounds interesting and not at all meant to be beautiful – and it probably criticizes some of the thing Queen Bee takes for granted in her daily life, so no love lost between Bee and Cindy!
Until next time, XO XO
Blair Waldorf, lifestyle and all 