It wouldn’t seem likely that the names Gustav Klimt and Barbie would ever be used in the same sentence – but then again, why not? In the Barbie® Museum Collection due out this summer, distinctly designed Barbies wear outfits fashioned after such classic paintings as Van Gogh’s The Starry Night, Da Vinci’s La Gioconda and Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I. Starry Night Barbie is strapless and swinging, Mona Lisa Barbie is more demure and subtly elegant, and the Klimt Barbie is quite the stunner in her resplendently detailed and shimmering wrap, choker and long gown.I hope they continue the series and personally would very much like to see a Dalí Barbie, with maybe a melting clock necklace or some busy little ants crawling up and down her legs? The Gauguin Tahiti Barbie, or the Jackson Pollock-style hipster, with a multicolored splattered minidress and black Abstract Expressionist sunglasses. It also might be nice to see Barbie as the artist herself with an easel and smock, rather than the exclusive object of beauty.
