Banned in Iran, called out for her impossible proportions and at the centre of a Facebook campaign... it's fair to say that Barbie courts more controversy than your average plastic doll.

One French artist however, is encouraging us to look at Barbie in a different light, with her latest collection of artworks. In 'Barbie, Ma Muse', Jocelyne Grivaud takes the famous doll and re-imagines her as some of the most iconic female muses in history, appearing in famous artworks like Warhol’s Marilyn, Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, and even popping up as the statue of Liberty, Coco Chanel and Neytiri from Avatar.

This isn't the first time Barbie has been given a new look - we already mentioned the Bald Barbie facebook campaign, and numerous celebrities have been given the Barbie treatment in recent years, but Jocelyn's works are the first to bring the doll into the art world.

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Barbie: Art's new muse?