and welcome to news from the world of culture i'm coming up on the show today europe's most comprehensive exhibition of cass's blue and rose periods is currently on show in switzerland. less is more is used by design as a simplicity but literally when it comes to this design trend maximalist. but first off we are constantly confronted in the media by the ideal figure of a woman but there is no such thing of course as we all know there was some very witty instagram as have been addressing this subject with their own versions of famous posts or perhaps undressing the subject will be a better way of explaining it i colleague melissa holroyd will be here to explain all after this. just an average day at the beach with britney spears on

instagram. and he is serious barbers version. these trillion is hailed as one of the funniest women on the net with her parodies she holds up a mirror to the glittering illusory world of social media. and she's not alone melody mitchell berger from hamburg also wants to see more real content on instagram. if she wants to highlight unrealistic beauty standards on the social media platform and show that the vast majority of women don't look like models so the former fashion editor strips off and posts her unfiltered photos. it's not usual in our society that we are exposed to people and especially to women

who are all shapes and sizes we don't often see them in advertising or in magazines or on television shows and it's a bit self empowering to say hey i'm here and i'm doing this and i'm not going to go away you. know the michelle burger has had enough of some displays of so-called beauty she admires celeste by a revealing humor that has taken aim at both celebrities and models alike. and she's been inspired under the hash tag celeste challenge accepted she's now posting her own parodies. my colleague melissa holroyd is with us now i mean i suppose it's quite an accolade

really when people stop copy yeah she's been a big name for a couple of years now she's also an actor she's a comedian she's published a book she's going on tour at the end of the year with a stand up show have parties instagram parodies started in twenty fifteen is the top of experiment and you know and they do very well as you can just say they highlight the absurdity of a photo and of was with terrific results and she's drawn a lot of followers yeah five point six million followers i'm still bent is a lot and constantly adding new posts are believed as well yes she's pretty active she's pretty active and she works with a lot of big names this is doing a parody of cindy crawford in a pepsi commercial. cindy crawford is a big fan of hers by the way. she also works a lot with husband does well yeah they would do a lot of things together she calls him hot husband and he calls himself also her

husband here they are hard at work well actually that's them isn't it them today that's the that's the sort of original yes you believe yeah yeah baba has really tapped into a wealth of material things to make fun of and instagram i mean there is this this this is you know just some areas that you can choose from and some of the people i mean city for photography not fun to some people getting upset. to be out there but there are also plenty of people who have been parodied who have started to follow her and also but if people have been parodied who have then contacted her and taken part in the next parody there are also lots of models who say that they deliberately post absurd scenarios with the hope that the list will do a parody of them let's see let's have a look at the serious side of this is despite progress on women's rights in recent

years i mean when it comes to women's figures there's not much give and take a man can walk around with a pot belly and get away with it a woman call. yeah i mean i think also in recent years i would say that beauty standards have also been raised and there are plenty of studies that show that social media platforms like instagram ah contributing to an obsession and an anxiety when it comes to appearances in society but about briefly these face filters that the they always make people look like models and yet they've also come under a lot of scrutiny and they've been coals for social media platforms to do something about it instagram has responded in pot to that they might be they might be removing they like in the future what you mean that like the you can like something you know so that you can't see the likes for that sort of draw and this is what we see there's going to be lots more about this in the midst of all right now thanks very much there. museum in switzerland is staging the most ambitious

exhibition ever devoted to pablo picasso's early works the so-called blue rose periods. paintings from these six years are considered some of the finest most compelling examples of modern and it did in fact set the scene for him to become the greatest artist of the twentieth century. i wanted to become a painter and became picasso. that meant becoming the genius of the twentieth century modernist cubist rove deconstructs of women and peacemaker reputed to be reinvented. because he could. but there were moments of doubt pain and sorrow in the works in the six years of the blue rose period images that have burnt away into the collective consciousness fruit reproductions for calendars and postcards these works were not revolutionary but rather emotive

of a quite existential. piece. and he started with me cubism on the contrary i believe that. what we actually want to show in this exhibition is that cubism didn't just suddenly as a radical break into castles work that this is heritage important themes and motifs in the blue and then the rose period. world exhibition in one thousand nine hundred. in the bella park the metropolis was inspiration in one thousand. have been accustomed to success but now experienced hardship living as a bohemian commuting between paris and spain when his best friend committed suicide his works. but he had an important part of his artistic identity his trade

signature. in the early years in search of recognition picasso identified himself with outsiders even erotic motifs seemed more bad and sentimental he paints prostitutes visits women's prisons studies misery he gives and the poor a face he seeks out suffering it's a phase of sensitivity even the portrait of an early lover is unsettling. he is still reliant on the melancholic symbolic power of the color. from nineteen zero five the beginning of the rose period the melancholy face. the harlequin remains as the artist's alter ego reflects the antiabortion a bastion of freedom from social convention. because those early work were all we had we probably wouldn't be talking about it this way today.

but fortunately he co-founded cubism after the blues and rose periods for. spring nineteen zero seven is the turning point because those inhibitions fall away and the laws of classical composition. he destroys beauty in favor of truth becomes the genius. changed his style many times in his life style of design where anything tired of hearing that less is more of the famous bio house cry that form follows function fed up with all those clear lines the minimalism of it all well from the twenty seven is well designed day and here's something that embraces an abundance of design and lots of. carla welcome to maximalist.

carlos' more shapes more patterns to misplaying embodies these mantras she's decorated her apartment in london in the maximalist style long live abundance decorates until you drop. some of this is my colorful policy and color makes me happy saw a key thing with a maximalist movement is mixing mixing color mixing pattern and bringing together a lot of objects. up there we have bottles and there is not just one not just two there's like twenty two so rather than be tane i think. take it to the. interior designer emily henson believes you can never be too bold when it comes to decorating and she says so just books. so i have noticed

a change from neutral tasteful almost like scandinavian style interior towards more colorful pattern for. i think months is about breaking the rules i don't think it has to be i think it's has to be your taste. growing number of shops in london or adopting them more is more style and carrying a range of fun pieces from across the world. designed to go live in a nineteenth century tourist towns a trademark a dark color extravagant accessories and in your face texture combinations much of it is a break so many widespread design conventions the star you can impact on the feel of a room. so the rules fully. don't use more than three or four colors in a row because otherwise it just is too schizo for that for the bright. light seeing

is fundamental texture and pattern are a bit like a hope and a spice or maybe and then the biggest thing that scares people the most. is playing around with scale. launch of pieces in a smaller space create a fairy tale atmosphere is it just a short lived front or has minimalism met its match. for those are looking to express their creativity to the. maximum ism could be a way to go. so almost anything goes i like that it means there's no such thing as bad taste doesn't it much more on all these topics and other things up to stick and cultural websites at b.w. dot com and on facebook at g.w. culture so for now thanks for watching and until next time.

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