At all times the long flowing hair of a woman attracted the people. Painters discovered that when they used long hair as a topic they could say a lot of things with it. And their works still have the same fascination as at the times of their creation.
In
front of the mirror by
German painter Georg Friedrich Kersting (1827).
Woman
combing her hair, a
pastel painting by Degas (1890).
The
Three Brides by Jan
Toorop who created strange patterns with the flowing hair of the women in his
paintings. The Dutch painter grew up in Indonesia.
Beauty
in front of a mirror,
another painting by John William Waterhouse.
The
Bridesmaid by John
Everett Millais (1861). Such floods of streaming hair were a typical topic of
the Pre-Raphaelite painters.
Portrait
of a beautiful Russian lady in 1910 on a modern stamp.
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for a German exhibition in 1906.
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for a French revue,
painted by Paul Berthon in the typical so-called youth style of this period.
A
Chinese wall painting
in a room of the Peking International Airport raised a controversial dispute
because it featured bathing nudes with long hair (about 1985).
