The work of art itself can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUDIoN-_Hxs Philip Scott Johnson, a digital artist from St Louis Missouri. Sometimes a picture says a thousand words. When pictures are combined with the “morphing” technique plus a beautiful musical composition, the result is something that cannot be measured and it is called creativity. The “morphing” technique is a special effect used to gradually change the face of people to transform it into the other. The interesting thing about this work is the natural and subtle transition of the pictures. The video was created using Abrosoft Fantamorph. “500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art” was nominated as Most Creative Video (2nd Annual YouTube Awards). I am fascinated with Johnson’s art. It is stunning! However, I think the title should be amended to “White women in European art.” I can’t wait to see other versions of Latin, Asian, Indian, american and native women. [https://flixeh.com/the-art-of-philip-scott-johnson/] Philip Scott Johnson has cast a strange net in his lovely and original video which blends together images of women from the last 500 years in art. In it, he captures the soul of these women as seen through an artist’s eyes over the course of centuries. By blending the portraits together with a time elapse technique first debuted, if I’m not mistaken, in Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” video, and using the eyes as a common focal point, he creates a powerful connection between the artist, the subject and the audience. As I watched Johnson’s work, I felt I knew, just for a moment, each of the women portrayed. All of them are equally compelling and, to me, equally beautiful, though they differ in almost every imaginable way. The spectrum of female beauty is indeed wide; wide enough to include every woman who has ever lived. This piece is like the antidote to all the photoshopped, barbarically thin Barbie-esque images of women which bombard us on a minute to minute basis. It is a reminder that there is not one ideal and that every woman can and should be celebrated. Having said that, I would be remiss if I did not also note the glaring absence of work by female artists like Frieda Kahlo and Mary Cassatt. Philip Scott Johnson could have elevated this piece to an even higher level had he chosen to include not just a variety of female subjects, but the women artists who also paint them. Nevertheless he has evoked the magic of feminine beauty as it exists in all its forms. For that, I am grateful. In these disparate faces I see my girlfriends, my sister, my mother, my grandmother, my great great great grandmother, myself; holding hands across time and gazing lovingly into one another’s eyes with the secret wisdom of a woman. [https://www.elephantjournal.com/2014/02/women-in-art-hypnotic-video/] 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art was uploaded to YouTube in April 2007. You've probably seen it before. However I'm guessing you're like me and think this is one of those wonderful compilations - which you never bore of taking one more look at. Which possibly explains how come it has now [2014] achieved over 14 million views on YouTube. [14,987,557 in Dec. 2017]... [https://makingamark.blogspot.nl/2014/10/more-videos-by-Philip-Scott-Johnson.html] By carefully weaving 90 classic western paintings together, creator Philip Scott Johnson shows us the evolution of art and the changing concept of beauty. It’s just amazing! Here’s a list of the paintings used to create this video: Archangel (Angel of the Golden Locks) – Novgorod School, Russia late 12th century La Scapigliata (The Lady of the Dishevelled Hair) – Leonardo da Vinci 1508 The Madonna of the Carnation – Leonardo da Vinci 1478-80 Mona Lisa (La Gioconda) – Leonardo da Vinci 1503-05 Lady with a Unicorn – Raphael c. 1505 The Birth of Venus – Sandro Botticelli 1485 Portrait of a Young Woman – Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1536 Portrait of a Lady as St. Lucy – Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio 1500 Sacred Conversation – Giovanni Bellini 1490 Profane Love (Vanity) – Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) 1514-1515 Judith with the Head of Holofernes – Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) c. 1515 Mary Magdalene – Pietro Perugino 1500 Portrait of Ginevra de Benci – Leonardo da Vinci 1476 Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani ) – Leonardo da Vinci 1483 – 1490 Virgin Annunciate (Maria der Verkundigung) – Antonello da Messina 1476 La Donna Velata (Woman with a Veil) – Raphael c.1514 Portrait of a Young Venetian Woman – Albrecht Durer 1505 Portrait of a Woman – Lucas Cranach the Elder 1526 Portrat der Maria Maddalena Portinari – Hans Memling 1470 Lais of Corinth – Hans Holbein the Younger 1526 Portrait of Elsbeth Tucher – Albrecht Durer 1499 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire – Sir Joshua Reynolds1775-76 Jane, Countess of Harrington – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1778 Mrs. John Hale – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1762-64 Mrs. Abington – Sir Joshua Reynolds 1764-1773 Charlotte-Aglae d’Orleans (Duchesse de Modene) – Pierre Gobert 1744 Portrait of Suzanna Huygens – Caspar Netscher 1667-69 The Marquise de Seignelay and Two of her Children – Pierre Mignard 1691 Madame Victoire de France – Jean-Marc Nattier 1748 Unknown Woman in a Blue Dress with Yellow Trimmings – Fyodor Rokotov 1760’s Le Chapeau de Paille (The Straw Hat) – Peter Paul Rubens c. 1626 Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat – Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Le Brun1782 Portrait of Lady-in-Waiting to the Infanta Isabella – Peter Paul Rubensid 1620’s Lady with a Flower in her Hair – El Greco c. 1590-1600 Madame Barbe de Rimsky-Korsakov – Franz Xaver Winterhalter 1864 Young Housewife – Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov 1840’s Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina – Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky 1797 Portrait of V. S. Putyatina – Alexey Gavrilovich Venetsianov1815-1816 Madame Pasteur – Antoine-Jean Gros 1795-96 Amalie von Schintling – Joseph Karl Stieler 1831 Portrait of M. A. Kikina – Orest Adamovich Kiprensky 1816 Woman with a Pearl – Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot c. 1869 The Reading – Edouard Manet 1869 Berthe Morisot – Edouard Manet 1872 Charlotte Dubourg – Henri Fantin-Latour 1882 Portrait of an Italian Woman – Alexei Vasilievich Tyranov 1851 Princess Albert de Broglie – Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres1851-53 An Elegant Beauty – William Clark Wontner c. early 20th century Souvenir – William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1895 La Belle Liseuse (The Beautiful Reader) – Leon Francois Comerre19th century Modesti – William-Adolphe Bouguereau 1902 Pavonia – Lord Frederick Leighton 1858-59 A Portrait of a Young Lady – Eugene de Blaas c. late 19th century Musette – Eugene de Blaas 1900 An Arab Beauty – Leon Francois Comerre c. late 19th century Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon) – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1885 Portrait of Madame Henriot – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1877 Two Sisters on the Terrace – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1881 Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary – Pierre Auguste Renoir1878 La Chevelure (Young Woman Braiding Her Hair) – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1876 Blonde Nude – Pierre Auguste Renoir 1882 La Promenade – Edouard Manet c. 1880 Portrait of Maggie Wilson – Frank Duveneck 1898 Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge – Mary Cassatt 1879 Ideal Head – Julian Alden Weir c. late 19th century Portrait of a Woman – Paul Cesar Helleu 1909 Ols Maria – Anders Zorn 1918 The Artist – Alphonse Maria Mucha 1920 The Matyr of the Solway – John Everett Millais 1871 Madeleine Bernard – Paul Gauguin 1888 Woman with a Hat – Henri Matisse 1905 Madras Rouge – Henri Matisse 1907 Cocolo – Francis Picabia 1936-38 Ritratto di Signora di Klimt – Gustav Klimt 1916-17 La fleur (serigraph) – Henri Matisse 1937 Portrait of Lydia Delectorskaya, the Artist’s Secretary – Henri Matisse 1947 The Mask – Louis Welden Hawkins 1905 Les Fleurs du Mal (Flowers of Evil) – Rene Magritte 1946 F. Champenois – Alphonse Maria Mucha 1897 Cycles Perfecta – Alphonse Maria Mucha 1902 Raphaelesque Head Exploding – Salvador Dali 1951 Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat – Salvador Dali 1954 Apparition of a Face with a Fruit Dish on a Beach – Salvador Dali 1938 Woman Torso – Kazimir Malevich 1928-1932 American Beauty (The Movie Star) – Knud Merrild 1928 Portrait of Lunia Czechowska – Amedeo Modigliani 1919 Tumblers (Mother and Son) – Pablo Picasso 1905 Maternity – Pablo Picasso 1905 Nude Woman In A Red Armchair – Pablo Picasso 1932 Portrait of Francoise – Pablo Picasso 1946 Music: Bach’s Sarabande from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma [http://womenyoushouldknow.net/500-years-of-female-portraits-in-3-minutes/]