Barbie® celebrates the singular style of artist Mark Ryden™, influential leader of the

contemporary art movement known as Pop Surrealism. Ryden's distinctive take

on surrealism is rendered with the time-honored finesse of the Old Masters, and blurs the boundaries between high and low art. This creative collaboration brings Ryden's magical universe to life.

 

Ryden has always given a very special place to the bee in his work and personal mythology.

Ryden sees the bee as a quintessential example of the interconnectedness of all forms of life on this planet. For this collaboration, Barbie® doll has become the bee, hovering

majestically in the middle of a luxuriant and baroque tableau of nature.