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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Making Faces, with Cecilia Zhou

This photomontage consists of six squares. The three top squares each depict Cecilia Zhou wearing makeup and clothes that match the color scheme of three corresponding works of art below. The bottom left portrait is a painting of a very pale-skinned woman wearing a white cape tied with a pink ribbon. The bottom center image is an abstract painting of a woman’s face. The bottom right portrait is of a woman with almond-shaped eyes, black hair, and earrings.
Cecilia Zhou’s art-related makeup tutorials are popular online. Here she is wearing makeup inspired by the three works she will discuss on the tour.

Tour

Student Guide Cecilia Zhou’s art-inspired makeup tutorials have appeared on the social media channels of the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this tour, she will spend time with three paintings that inspired her: the 20th-century Head of a Woman by Russian Expressionist Alexei von Jawlensky, the 3rd-century Egyptian Mummy Portrait of a Woman, and the 18th-century portrait of the marquise de Pompadour by French artist François Boucher. She will focus on the role of the face in defining identity and how differently it’s treated in these works.

This interactive tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94085812849 (free admission; no pre-registration required).

Virtual Student Guide Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Each tour is unique, so drop in and join the conversation!

Read these instructions on how to join a meeting on Zoom. For general questions about Student Guide Tours, email am_register@harvard.edu.

This program is supported by the Ho Family Student Guide Fund.

The Ho Family Student Guide Program at the Harvard Art Museums trains students to develop original, research-based tours of the collections. These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each Student Guide and offer a unique, thematic view into the collections.

The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.