Ayshat
Micheal
Professor C
November 28th,
2017
Art and
Women
Five Contemporary Artists
Contemporary art is art that is has a technological advancement
in the world, has a global influence, and a cultural influence. Contemporary
art was or made in the twentieth or twenty first century. It is an era in art
where many artists had a sense of individuality and there was no uniformed way
to go about art. Contemporary artist have unique way of applying different
methods, concepts, challenging the traditional way of art, and using different
materials to create art. Contemporary artists create artwork that relates to
them on a personal level, relates to their cultural background, identity,
nationality, and their family.
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| Jenny Saville, Strategy, 1994. |
When men create
an artwork of the nude women they have some type of pleasure doing it while on
the other hand a female artist is trying to send a positive message. I believe
that Jenny Saville is trying to call attention and appreciate big women or
chubby women. I believe her intent is to inspire women to love themselves no
matter what.
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| Jenny Saville, Nats, 1992. |
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| Kara Walker, Story. |
Kara Elizabeth Walker is an African American contemporary
artist and she was born November 26, 1970. Walker challenges the issues of violence,
identity, race, sexuality, and gender in her work. Walker is more than just a contemporary
painter she is a print maker, film maker, silhouettits, and installation artists.
Kara Elizabeth Walker is known for her unique style of black paper cut silhouettes
with a white background which many have implied that it represents the history
of black people being enslaved by whites.
I find it very essential that black artist tell our story through art or
depict black history through art because history and art both go along way.
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| Kara Walker, Pictures From Another Time. |
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| Shirin Neshat, Speechless. |
Shirin Neshat is an Irinian contemporary artist who was born
in 1957 and currently resides in New York City. Neshat is film maker,
photographer, and videographer- she directs at times as well. Her artwork
compares and contrasts the Islamic religion and the Western world. Shrin Neshat
also tackles issues such as public life versus private life, femininity versus
masculinity, and modernity versus traditional. In her work she tries to connect
these issues to one another. It is important that Muslims are talked about in
art because Islam is a very different yet fast growing religion. There are many
Muslims especially females that can relate to her artwork. I find the Arabic very
interesting as well, although I understand the Arabic language I cannot
understand what she wrote because her type of Arabic is different from standard
Arabic. Countries that have Arabic as their main language all have dialects so
therefore some words would be different unless they use standard Arabic. I have
made art work in the past and included Arabic in my art work and it is
something that I still do now. Arabic does not only looke pretty but its
meaning goes a long way. Her work also means a
lot to me because I as a Hijaab wearing women incorporate the Hijaab in my
artwork. So I am one of the many that can relate to her artwork.
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| Shirin Neshat, Fervor Series |
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| Hung Liu, Mulan: Camping Diring The War |
Hung Liu is Chinese American contemporary artist and was
born February 17th, 1948. Her style of painting is formed by
brushstrokes incorporated with linseed oil that gives her paintings a drippy
outcome. Many have interpreted this as blurred memory or a metaphor for the
loss of historical memory. Hong Liu challenges the academic system of Chinese
Socialist Realist. She has the title of “the greatest Chinese painter in the Unites
States.” In her painters, Hung Liu uses women, children, refugees, soldiers,
and anonymous Chinese historical photographs as the subject of her work. She
has also created pieces of artwork that featured prostitutes and many are
astonished by that. I believe that Hong Liu’s goal was to shine light on the
people that did not have power in China. It took China a while to get its
government intact.
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| Hung Liu |
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| Vanessa Beecroft, VB |
Vanessa Beecroft ia an Italian contemporary performance artist
an was born April 25th, 1969. Beecroft uses a lot of models in her
work. Some of her performance pieces has received a negative response because
of the racial issues they carry. Some say that Beecroft does not consider the
time and endurance that her models have to go through to get some f her
projects done. In Beecroft’s performance art she tackles atrocities such as the
genocide that happened in Danfur, Sudan. She had about thirty Sudanese women
lying face down to represent the genocide. She has received a lot of backlash
from one of her works because she adopted two Sudanese twins simply for an art
exhibition.
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| Vanessa Beecroft, VB5 |
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