Framed Dress Paintings

Dresses underwent multiple transformations over the year, but the thing that never changed was their ability to dazzle the eye. Short, tight or long and vaporous, dresses are on many occasions synonymous with stylishness and this is obvious when admiring the framed dress posters. Marilyn Bridges’s Girl in Dress painting features a contemplative woman whose beauty is easy to assume, but the elegance of the dress is the first thing that strikes the viewer.

Keith Mallet has a more exotic take with the Sakura painting and the same goes for Karen Dupre’s Cosmopolitan collection. Dresses are not only a source of inspiration for modern artists, but also classic painters and Gustav Klimt has a few paintings that highlight their elegance. The one named Emilie Floege is strikingly beautiful, with the inspired choice of colors making the blue dress stand out, in stark contract with the yellow background. Andrea Laliberte celebrates the dresses and makes a connection between the garments and different European styles in his framed dress prints titled Opera, Teatro or Ballet.