Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Mika Rottenberg is best known for her elaborate, colorful installations. An acclaimed video installation artist, Mika Rottenberg features female performers with extreme physical characteristics such as female body builders in her work to comment on gender, labor, human rights, and value. Her work often involves women working in repetitive tasks, which were inspired by Rottenberg’s first encounters with infomercials. Moreover, by having the subjects of her do meaningless work, Rottenberg comments on about society’s need to find solutions to nonexistent problems. I chose to write about this artist after watching her 2010 film, Squeeze, in which numerous actions rapidly occur. Lettuce is being crushed, a tongue
Karlsen further describes her theme along with a wonderful exhibiting connected with outlining this time for the portrayal of women. Specifically, she em...
Miro, V (2016). Review: Exhibits of Work by Grayson Perry [online] Available at: http:// www.victoria-miro.com Accessed on 30th May 2016.
In the first image on the left, a man is kissing a lady; the artistic way of expression can be interrupted as disrespectful or offensive. Her work has had a lot of criticism as there is too much sexuality featured. For example, the boy and the girl on the cliff having oral sex. Nevertheless, she doesn’t shy away from controversial topics of racism, gender,and sexuality in her paper -cut silhouette.
The film Wendy and Lucy, directed by Kelly Reichardt, presents a sparse narrative. The film has been criticised for its lack of background story, and as a short film, much of the story is left to the viewer to infer from what is presented in the plot. However, Wendy and Lucy is able to depict the intimate relationship between Wendy and her dog as well as reflecting more broadly on the everyday, and commenting on the current economic state of the film’s setting in America. This essay will examine how film form contributes to the viewer’s awareness of the story in Wendy and Lucy and allows a deeper understanding of the themes presented. The aspects of mise-en-scene, shot and editing and sound in the film will be explored.
The Grand Rapids Art Museum of Michigan is currently displaying a performance art video by artist Shannon Plumb who is based in New York. The white and black short video Rattles and Cherries is one of Plumbs latest works created in 2004, she both directs and stars in her work. Plumbs video works are her own comedic feminist take on the deconstruction of societal critiques of women and everyday people. She is compared to being a mix of Charlie Chaplin, Cindy Sherman, and Claude Cahun.
The camera is presented as a living eye in her work, capable of bending and twisting, contorting reality in its own light. It is at the same time a sensuous device, one that exp...
The Feminist Art Movement raised women’s status and the world’s awareness on gender equality through artworks that reflect women’s lives, feelings, and value. Through creativity, feminist artists invited the audience into their daily livings, to understand their strengths and efficiency, and to consider their needs and feelings. The movement expanded the traditional female role in society, such as housewives, to individuals with talents including artists, writers, the working class, and professionals. The female artists used media ranging from traditional techniques, like painting, to non-traditional art forms, such as installation art, performance art, conceptual art, and sculptures to share with the audience their new perspectives.
The film director uses sound as a film technique to show the sadness she feels under the great amount of makeup that covers
Yrache Jiménez, L. (2007): “Imagen de la mujer y el hombre en publicidad”, en Plaza y Delgado, 2007.
Woodman’s glove teased ‘the construction of the feminine as that ‘hole’ to be always obscured.” Not long after she finished school, she created a series of images simply titled “Untitled.” It is a project that suggests self-representation. This series of five images involves an Italian artist Sabina Mirri. Woodman’s black gloves appear as the prop in these photographs.
The picture is a scale in which the female side is higher than the male side. Women have always been since as less than a man, an outlook that can be traced all the way back to the bible. According to the bible, Eve was created from Adams rib, which was supposed to be construed as his loving her because she was made of his flesh has been corrupted that women are less than a man. Even the United States, the pioneer of freedom and rights, still pays a woman less than a man. A women’s opinion is still doubted or in some cases not even listened to especially when they hold positions of power. In third world countries, if a woman is attacked or raped it is her fault, just because she is a woman. Infanticide, the killing of female babies, is still predominant in areas all over the world. Mothers rid themselves of girl children so that they don’t have to worry about dishonor or providing a dowry. This killing of females is also represented in the art. This artwork should remain on Tejon Street as a reminder as how far we have come as women and how we have much work ahead of us in order to get true
Williams, Bruce. "The Reflection of a Blind Gaze: Maria Luisa Bemberg, Filmmaker." A Woman's Gaze: Latin American Women Artists. Ed. Marjorie Agosin. New York; White Pine Press, 1998. 171-90.
The article “Post-feminism and Popular culture” by Angela McRobbie(2004) befittingly deals with post-feminism, defining it as ‘’an active process by which feminist gains of the 1970’s and 80’s come to be undermined.’’ In this insightful article, McRobbie envisages post-feminism in a positive way, raising feminism and achieving equality. She associates 1990 as a year of change, “the moment of definitive self-critique in feminist theory” (McRobbie, ). In this period, post-colonialist feminists interrogate the claims of the second-wave-feminism, and popular feminism could express itself. Ultimately McRobbie suggests that by means of tropes of freedom and choice that are now connected with the category of ‘young women’, feminism is decisively aged and made to seem redundant. McRobbie demonstrates how 21st century post –feminism challenges the ideology of feminism by using the example of the “Wonderbra” advertisement (1994) picturing the model Eva Herzigova, to emphasize the work of the “undoing” feminism (post feminism) or third wave feminism. In this advertisement, Eva admiringly looks at her body and is inviting the audience to look at her. She does it out of her own choice, not caring about anything or anyone. She seems to be in an active position and makes her a subject rather than an object. In doing so, this advertisement gives a sense of seeing feminism as a past matter, not being relevant anymore. The advertisement provocatively presents sexism. To me it seems that women present themselves in an ironical way and consequently, they are the subjects with power, or their body is the sight of power. Women have control over their body and hence, are
This text is about the author reviewing the famous movie “Precious”, which is directed by Lee Daniels and based on the novel “Push” by Sapphire. This 1-hour-and-50-minute film is about a pregnant Harlem teen named “Precious”, played by Gabourey Sidibe, attempted to escape from her abusive mother Mary, played by Mo’Nique, in order to build a new life together with her babies after being offered to turn her life around. In addition of reviewing the movie and just giving thoughts about the general aspects, she went on talking about the director’s style, each actor’s performance of the main as well as side characters. She described Daniels’ style as “confronting viewers with the most squalid, violent depredations Precious suffers at her mother’s hands” and realistic as Precious cannot face the reality of abusing because she retreated from it by daydreaming her “boyfriend”. So as we can see, instead of lessening the pain, Daniels showed us the full view of Precious’s sad and miserable truth, which is quite unlike many directors of the same era. Although Hornaday did mention about the problems and cliché of the film’s characters like Mary and Precious herself like how precious can withstand the “plague of social ills” without becoming “grostesque” , she said it made up for the actors’ impressive performance to the point
image of themselves in real life. They are almost computer-generated women like in the movie Simone. Indeed, with the technology we have now, advertisers can transform a product into perfection, at the same time, misleading the consumer into seeing it as “real”, and thus permanently providing impossible standards (Ingham). More and more women are becoming dissatisfied with themselves trying to be this fantasy person created by the men in our society. This distorted view of reality, portrayed by advertisemen...