The Ladies from Shanghai - Aristocracy and Decadence
Solo exhibition during Tel-Aviv Illustration Week 2018
Conveyed through brief stories taken from daily life, the illustrator, Jonathan Katz, offers a portrait of the wealth and decadence of Shanghai women.
The Ladies from Shanghai were fashionable and sophisticated young women who posed as models for artists. The original paintings were created as posters for advertising and promoting western goods during the years 1920-1940.
The ladies in these posters represent a period in time when Shanghai was considered as Paris of the East Asia.
“In my illustrations, I took the images of these beautiful young women from the periodic posters and created a new unique timeline for each character by using the aesthetic of the original posters.”
