The collections entitled ASK A WOMAN and INAMORATA are odes to the women who inspire the artist, which she expresses through her signature patterns and vibrant colours. The artist observes the lives of different women and illustrates them through her art form to highlight her Beauty in Diversity mantra. The collections celebrate famous women as well as women realized by the artist.
ASK A WOMAN portrays women from all walks of life and is inspired by a woman’s strengths, weaknesses, wit, laughter, joys and her tears.
INAMORATA pays tribute to exceptional women from history and from modern times, revelling in their beauty, boldness, and refusal to conform to displaced norms.
Having created the revolutionary method of photographic imagery with oil, acrylic and giclée printmaking mediums to depict emotion, each of Kristel Bechara’s pieces has a story and speaks a thousand words. The paintings in this collection were made available in alternative proportionate sizes.
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Madonna
Giclee on Canvas 100x150cm
Madonna has made a career as well as an art out of reinventing herself, as a rock diva, stage and screen star, video vixen, fashion icon and a cultural phenomenon. Madonna is labelled by international authors as the greatest woman in music, as well as the most influential and iconic female recording artist of all time. The artist take on the “Queen of Pop”, showing her in her most iconic look and posture. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, and become a better version of yourself.” – Madonna
Audrey
Acrylic on Canvas 100x150cm
This painting is a tribute to Audrey Hepburn. Stunningly beautiful, Audrey Hepburn was also very talented. She was the first actress to win a Golden Globe, an Academy Award and a BAFTA for a single performance. She was also a trained ballet dancer, and could speak numerous languages including English, French, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish.
Marilyn's Tutu
Giclee on Canvas 120x120cm
Marilyn Monroe was extremely strategic about what she wore. Great intelligence and thought went into the creation of her iconic look. Platinum blonde hair, an inviting red pout and killer dresses to accentuate her perfect hourglass figure. Monroe dressed for men.
Brigitte Bardot
Giclee on Canvas 100x150cm
…And God Created Woman. French screen goddess Brigitte Bardot wasn’t merely a muse; she was also a trendsetter. She popularized the bikini, the so-called “Bardot neckline.” As a former ballet dancer, she once asked designer Rose Repetto to make shoes as light as her dance slippers. Voilà: the everyday ballerina flat was born.
Fairuz
Giclee on Canvas 100x100cm
Fairuz is commonly known as “Ambassador to the Stars”, “the Moon’s Neighbour” and the “Jewel of Lebanon”. Fairuz is the Arab world’s most famous and most listened-to singer. For decades, almost all radio stations in the Arab world have been starting their morning broadcast with a Fairuz song. Fairuz is a living icon and remains the supreme Diva of Lebanon. Her emergence as a singer paralleled Lebanon’s transformation from a backwater to the vibrant financial and cultural heart of the Arab world.
Twiggy
Giclee on Canvas 70x100cm
Curves were the beauty standard until Twiggy came on the scene; Four years after Marilyn Monroe’s death in 1962, a British model named Twiggy set the new desirable and fashionable look that brought her right into the decade’s social revolution alongside the Beatles and pop art. Her look has not been challenged in almost forty years. But before Twiggy conquered London and changed fashion forever, the teen with huge eyes, a boyish bob and long legs craved the glamour and curves of a different icon. “Whether you’re thin, fat, small, dark, blond, redhead, you wanna be something else. I wanted a fairy godmother to make me look like Marilyn Monroe.”- Twiggy
Sherihan
Giclee on Canvas 100x100cm
Sherihan is a legendary icon. She is a formidable actress, singer and dancer (lawyer and mother too). Sherihan is famous for her beauty and playful style, her acting, both on stage and on the silver screen, and her memorable song and dance performances in Fawazeer on Egyptian TV. She was also known for her unique and eye-catching fashion choices. Even when she wasn’t performing, she never failed to amuse with her bold style. Yet, the all-time favourite Sherihan looks have to be those from her performances in Fawazeer, where she got to dress in every costume imaginable, from mermaid to pharaoh, and often in glittery, sequined gowns and ostentatious accessories. She wore it all with poise”. Yasmine Shihata
Audrey
Giclee on Canvas 100x150cm
“My look is attainable… Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large glasses and the little sleeveless dresses.” Audrey Hepburn. Hepburn’s influence as a beauty style icon continues today. In recent years she was named the “most beautiful woman of all time”, “most beautiful woman of the 20th century” and voted “the most stylish Brit of all time”. She successfully rose to stardom by embodying a new alternative feminine ideal that appealed more to women than to men (in comparison to the then “beauty standard” set by curvy and more sexual Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor.
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