He is perhaps challenging the viewer to see more that physical beauty but rather an internal need to be desired regardless of our outer shell or weathered state. He used detail and traditional symbolism of beauty in the clothing, headdress, the red rose, the seductive corset, and the lifted chin and soft eyes. Perhaps the timeless review and contemplation of intent was in fact Massys true intent of this piece, as it has withstood the test of time as a historically famous work of art. The initial dislike for the woman drew me in. The complexity of the painting made be find aesthetic beauty, and the content itself keeps me perplexing on the possibilities of intent. It is truly a respectable and intriguing display of art and…
Juilie Rrap (b. 1950) is an Australian contemporary artist who is mostly known for her involvement with body art, performance and digitally based works. Rrap grew up in the town of Lismore, New South Wales. Her brother being Mike Parr, who also is well-known for his performance art and printmaking. During the 70’s, Rrap became involved with body art as well as performance which became the main influence, then expanded and evolved with time. Slowly she began experimenting with photography, painting, sculpture and video in an on-going projects concerned with representations of the body.…
Max Nordau creates an well written and interesting essay asking the question: what makes art appealing? What is considered beautiful, and what is considered heinous?…
2. How does the work attempt to express the personal views of the Artist? The artwork automatically portrays that the artist likes to play around with her artworks, and doesn’t make them in an ordinary manner. It shows us the abstract and unusual side to art.…
Black feminist performance artist Gabrielle Civil, demonstrates how she found her identity as a writer, poet, artist, daughter, women and feminist through live art performances. Such representation is displayed through the connection of the red dots that links between the groups throughout the performance. The theme of oppression is prevalent throughout the performance which is explored even further during a question and answer session when Civil reflects on experience which shaped her. The performance used Red rope as a metaphor to explain patriarchy, and Civil experience of facing sexism within her own family Gabrielle Civil has discovered herself because of the connection she made with the group of people during the performance with red rope. For example, she states “Red dots turns into recognition of your red blood, veins cells,…
I feel this painting is trying to communicate to the people who look at this when they think outside of the box. Showing people the women’s role in pre and post-revolutionary…
As individuals in this world, we are all affected and captured by different things. There will be moments in which we get a grasp of who we are or for a moment we let go of the thought of ourselves and fully appreciate what is in front of us. Czeslaw Milosz states that “art liberates and purifies, and its tokens are those short moments when we look at a beautiful landscape forgetting about ourselves, when everything that concerns us disappears, is dissolved, and it does not matter whether the eye that looks is that of a beggar or a king.” Milosz describes how impactful art may be and it should not matter whether the viewer is of a certain class, race, gender, etc. Art has the power to fully capture us and in that moment we obtain an experience we have never felt before, one in which we are…
The author suggest that we ask ourselves: “What is the purpose of this work of art (and what is the purpose of art in general)? What does it mean? What is my reaction to the work and why do I feel this way? How do the formal qualities of the work-such as color, its organization, its size and scale-affect my reaction? What do I value in works of art?”…
In the 1980’s, female artist addressed the dominance of cultural perceptions regarding female agency, pleasure, and spectatorship. In order to make their voice heard in a white male dominant art industry, they created works of art from paintings to films that challenged the social stereotypes and ideologies about female identity. This essay will define these three perceptions and examine the artworks from artist such as Julie Dash, Kobena Mercer , and Jenny Saville. These artists paved a way for the feminist movement through the use of disturbing the normative constructions of femininity, racial identity, and the body.…
The contemporary artist that I chose to discuss in this paper is Louise Bourgeois and her piece of art Eyes". This abstract sculpture is made of marble and dated 1982.…
It is often wondered what an artist was thinking or what message they are trying to convey when they create an unusual or even a masterpieces of art. Now it is also safe to say that such beauty and talent might only be in the eye of the beholder, and many will never appreciate or understand the views that others have towards an artists work.…
Depictions of women in art have changed and morphed depending on their cultures and time periods in which they’ve been photographed and painted. The contexts of the artworks vary in their representation of women and change throughout their history accordingly. Sexist stereotypes of women being passive and docile – archetypal to classical art adapt and shift to incredibly provocative of modern and post-modern ideas of perfection of the female within art; the shift having the eyes downcast to having the eyes confront, challenge and stare down the voyeur. Classical, modern and post-modern all have ideologies of perfection within art. The representation of…
Patterson’s analysis and evidence more so discusses the emotional effect of the art on people and less on how feminicide was reframed as a human rights issue. In Patterson’s beginning paragraphs, she makes the claim that “visual art…reframed feminicide and gender-based violence as human rights.” However, there is no evidence that suggests people viewed it as such. Instead, she talks about how visual art brought about a “call for consciousness,” how it provided “experiential instances of violence,” and how it conveyed “outrage and solidarity toward the feminicide victims.” Patterson never discusses a new profound way that people view feminicide. In fact, Patterson doesn’t mention any connection between visual art and human rights until her…
Nochlin argues the importance of asking the question, “Why have there been no great women artists?” by offering many of it’s implications. She suggests that by simply asking this question we realize how conditioned we’ve been to accept the white Western male viewpoint as the dominant and, perhaps, even the only accepted viewpoint because it’s the only one we’ve ever known. She continues on to explain how many institutional limitations rather than individual limitations, such as female artists not having access to nude models in a period of time where it was necessary for artists to achieve greatness, and the historical role and expectations of women in society, have prohibited women from being accomplished artists.…
Claudia Jones is relatively unknown in the United States today, but was once a well-known activist that made headlines when she was deported. Although she was fully dedicated to the communist cause her idea of how communism would spread and be successful involved the integration of feminist theories. She believed that the participation of women is what would end up causing the success of the communist party. This mixture of communism and feminist theories involving gender inequality, discrimination, and patriarchy influenced Claudia Jones views and activities for most of her adult life. This idea of communism and feminist theories leading Jones’s life comes form the explanation of her life in Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black…