During the first confinement, Zoe still remembers the contemptuous looks thrown over her shoulder at the Beaux-Arts workshops in Paris.
“I felt a little boycotted when classes reopened last summer.
Many teachers with whom I worked no longer called me because I was one of the models to have posed online ”,
explains the 33-year-old young woman.
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“
It was really horrible,
” recalls Maria Clark, professional model and visual artist.
On social networks, she who has been practicing this profession for more than twenty years has had to endure all kinds of criticism and derogatory comments.
“They all ran into us.
It was relentlessness.
I received messages of odious, very virulent insults, ”
she continues.
Among its detractors, professors who did not see very well that this practice inherited from the Greco-Roman tradition finds its natural extension on the Internet.
“Video conferencing will never replace the magic of a workshop,
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