Shirin Neshat: Compare And Contrast Analysis

Short essay

Wangechi Mutu and Shirin Neshat, are two powerful female artists with strong motives and messages behind their artworks. Even though these two women share the same message, they have very divergent styles of converting their message into art. Shirin Neshat’s powerful photographs and video installations illuminate the gender and cultural conflicts of her native Iran, she published a series of artworks called Women of Allah that overall broke every stereotype based on women, the artwork “Rebellious Silence”, a woman is pictured in a religious lookin like appareil, the artwork portraits the woman holding a rifle, but since the rifle is positioned vertically it gives off a relaxed vibe even though it should be representing something like stress or chaos/havoc. The portrait is
The overall view of this artwork gives off a very feminine vibe due to the vibrant warm pink tones of the background and the various amounts of plants surrounding the woman pictured, normally the pink pigments and plants are a symbol of nature, and women are associated with nature in a “mother earth” sort of way, these traits make the artwork give a very female look as soon as you see it. Comparing the two artworks , The “praying mantra” falls into the more generic standard gender role associated with women as said due to the colors and the various plants that stand around the female, also the female is sitting in a very distinctive feminine posture, basically everything about this artwork screams female and everything having to do with the female characteristics. On the other hand “ Rebellious Silence”,