This essay is about how people presented in the visual culture. To discuss this topic, it will look through the work of John Berger and Laura Mulvey. Through this essay, it will discuss how woman and men had been presented with an idea of the male gaze in past and how it used in recent cultural industry.
John Berger was an artist and an art critic. He focused on how different culture present men and woman in visual art and culture industry. Berger used the idea of the male gaze to unravel how people present. The male gaze is the view from the male to women. How this idea founded by Berger is, he was a novelist who focused on seeing. Therefore he concentrates on the concept of different ways of seeing and ordinary found the concept of the male gaze. According to Way of seeing (Berger 1972), He pointed about a
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This is because there were many paintings, which are the nude woman in, and most painters of those paintings were male. For instance, Reclining Bacchante. Trutat painted this work in 1895. (Berger 1975:45) The painting is showing a lady reclining on the sofa with nude. This painted from the male view because in my view, there no painter paint woman with nude. Mostly, the painter, who is a woman, paint a woman with a beautiful dress. This painting also present the women were as an object and surveyed by the male. However, there is some reason why the presentation of women and male are different. the first reason is how the woman seeing is different to the men. According to Berger, he said men look women as a male gaze but women look at themselves as an object. Moreover, his idea still exists. The reason of this is because of recent year, cultural industries using this idea to sale the product to women and men. As an example, when the cosmetics store Dior sale women perfume, they used women to model and woman and man to promote male
The difference is that one is considered a goddess and the other is known to be a prostitute. The goddess is depicted with a chunky body and the prostitute's body has a sensual nature. She is lying on an oriental stole on a couch. She is wearing pearl earrings, a choker around her neck, and a bracelet on her arm, a flower in her hair and the kind of shoes she has on confirms the idea that she is a lady of the night life, along with the black cat that symbolizes that she is a prostitute. Another difference is that there's a maid standing right next to her fully dressed. as if to make you more aware of her nudity. She is holding flowers and has a blank look on her face. The public or the critics could not accept or understand why he would replace a goddess with a prostitute. Also it was not the nudity that appalled people; this was common and had been for centuries but only in a different perspective. The viewers were scandalized by the brazen look on her face. It had more of a bold challenging look. The painting made a bold stand and was too much to accept. The people were so upset by it that the administration had to take extra safety measures to keep the
The composition of this painting forces the eye to the woman, and specifically to her face. Although the white wedding dress is large and takes up most of the woman’s figure, the white contrasts with her face and dark hair, forcing the viewer to look more closely into the woman’s face. She smokes a cigarette and rests her chin on her hands. She does not appear to be a very young woman and her eyes are cast down and seem sad. In general, her face appears to show a sense of disillusionment with life and specifically with her own life. Although this is apparently her wedding day, she does not seem to be happy.
The female statue has exaggerated stomach, breasts, and bottoms. It also shows a very sharp, detailed private. The artist could have made the breast large to represent nurturing, and the belly to represent being
Pablo Picasso is certainly a genius who has left an indelible mark on his time. Consequently, many artists all over the world have had their own career influenced by his work. Among those artists can be listed Willem de Kooning, a Dutch American painter, and the Cameroonian artist Koko Komegne. For instance, both artists have had their early work, and later their career impacted by Picasso’s cubism. While de Kooning spent hours looking at each detail of Picasso’s paintings, Koko Komegne learnt to paint by reproducing the master’s artworks. Another thing both artists shared with Picasso through their career was the woman as subject matter. Unsurprisingly, de Kooning and Komegne have extensively painted the woman in their own career. Among all those pieces, Seated Woman, 1940, from Willem de Kooning and Toilette, 2006, from Koko Komegne are very similar; the characters on both pieces are ladies, and they have the same pose. However, although the two paintings are similar in term of descriptive subject matter, de Kooning and Komegne draw from their environment and their personal style to highlight their specificities.
In Yasumasa Morimura painting, Portrait (Futago) the viewer is faced with two people who are of different skin colors. However, instead of painting a woman in the reclining position, Morimura has put himself in this posi...
In conclusion, it is significant to recognize the revolution of the female silhouette throughout history along with women’s roles in today’s society and also, the physical restrictions imposed on them. The silhouette of women’s fashion has changed as the idea of the perfect female figure has reformed. Nevertheless, in the early twentieth century the concept of women leading more active and lively life meant that fashion also needed to become more cooperative to physical action and less limiting.
The painting depicts two figures, the one of a woman and of a man. The dominating central figure is the one of the woman. We see her profile as she looks to the left. Her hands are crossed in a graceful manner. She has blonde hair and her figure is lit by what seems to be natur...
There have been many people who believe that this woman being represented in the painting is actually the goddess Venus, resulting in its name becoming Venus of Urbino. Guidobaldo referred to the picture’s protagonist only as “the nude woman.” It was Giorgio Vasari, who first
painting of a woman be so famous?” Well, probably one of the reasons this painting is
A nude woman reclining is a piece of art that has been apart of many art movements throughout history. Édouard Manet's Olympia, and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres' Le Grande Odalisque, are two pieces that are apart of this history.
In chapter six of the book, the pictorial imagery demonstrates a variety of art forms connoting its realism and diversity of the power of connecting to wealth in contradiction to the deprived in the western culture. The images used in this chapter relate to one another and state in the analogy the connection of realism that is depicted in social statues, landscapes, and portraiture, also present in the state of medium that was used to create this work of art. In fact, some of the works presented depict mythological paintings that resemble the transcending metaphysical matter of nature. Take for instance, the general aspect of the artwork presented in this chapter. They depict different social levels through the use of objects, emotions and various conditions.
In order to familiarise myself with the above topic, I have invested much time reading vast selection of the portraiture art themes with aim to get acquainted with the knowledge and the language used in this particular subject. It was very challenging and entertaining to read comprehensive range of various critiques and analysis of the world best paintings stretching from ancient classic to contemporary western image. Developing understanding of the diverse art expressions and social and political influences tha...
The piece, “From Ways of Seeing” by John Berger, describes how a man’s actions are perceived and always focused on showing power. However a woman’s presence is opposite and that everything she does determines how people see her. Her choices and actions are what we go by to determine who the woman is. Whereas men want to be seen but women just want to be accepted (4). Aaron H. Devor in, “Becoming Members of Society: Learning the Social Meanings of Gender” argues that men and women both strive to obtain power (112). Devor shows how the means of how they obtain said power are vastly different and mirror the statements that Berger claims (114). Devor helps further our understanding of how we come to act the specific ways that are customary by divulging the ongoing thought process toward gender of children (109). Berger as well as Devor seem to agree on the topic of how the members of a gender act in society, the motive behind these actions are where differences between the writers
Mr. Berger states in his essay, “The reciprocal nature of vision is more fundamental than that of a spoken dialogue. And often dialogue is an attempt to verbalize this- an attempt to explain how, either metaphorically or literally, “you see things” (120). This statement is a use of the rhetorical strategy, ethos, which is what Mr. Berger uses to gain influence and trust with the academic audience that he is intending to instill new knowledge in. This is a strong use of ethos that leads into how art is viewed so
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