5
Amazing Women
Contemporary Art was new and is still going on is was a better way to get a message across and allowed women to be more straight forward and as grotesque to blunt about what they wanted to get across. I want to talk Five Amazing women in Contemporary art. I chose these women because of what they did to stop typical roles within races, they tried to understand what a woman did in any status and because they were straight forward in fighting against the male gaze. This was a time where women started to branch out not care what others thought, this is where big change began to happen. Different art styles were being reflected on the time it was. This was the art of today and was a bit more modern. The first female artist I want to talk about would be Yoko Ono. She is a Japanese-American Conceptual artist. There is no other way to describe her work with words. I have seen documentaries of her work and there were people who didn’t believe her, but she made history happen. She a form of art that can reach anyone and everyone. She was known for her experimental art and film making even music. She even made experimental music with her husband John Lennon. One of her strong pieces was just her sitting in the ground and allowing audience members to cut pieces of her clothes with scissors. She wouldn’t say a word nor look at them, she would continue to stare blankly. This piece was called Cut Piece in 1964. Her art is the kind of art that allowed the audience to make it their own, and interpret anyway they wanted to interpret it.
The next artist I would like to talk about would be
Marina Abramovic. She was mostly known for her performance work and how she
used her body. A great example would be Rhythm 10 in 1973, this required Marina
Abramovic to repeatedly stab the spaces between her fingers with knives. The
thought of it in general is very intense, the images of blood just triggers
goosebumps and suddenly rhythm isn’t just rhythm anymore. This tested the relationship
between the mental and the physical interpretation of rhythm. It is as if just
when you thought you have interpreted something so simple like rhythm, seeing
her work just questions it and it open minds to think of ideas in a broader
perspective. I enjoy the modernism and the performance and how they take
advantage of filming.
Now there is the amazing Cindy Sherman. Her work wasn’t
outstanding to the point where its out shines others but it sure was enough to
be part of one of my favorite contemporary artists. Her work consisted of
socially critical photography. Cindy Sherman was a key figure of the Pictures Generation. She turned to photography toward the end
of the 1970s, this was because she wanted in to explore a wide range of common
female social roles or positions or even characters
if I may say. Having the camera on herself in a scene of role playing of
fantasy Hollywood, fashion, and mass advertising roles. The different people she wanted
to portray, and question were the ones she made a series of which include, sexual
desire and domination. One of my favorite pictures of hers would have to be Untiled
Film Still #13 in the year 1978. She demonstrated the upcoming of a young woman.
How the young women would develop, and she tried to use background to plant an
idea of what kind of mentally the person in the picture should have. Again, the
usage of photographs allowed her to be able to play so many roles of women in a
society of all statuses and all ages.
The female Iranian artist Shirin Neshat concentrates on mainly photography,
film, and video works that dig into issues of gender, identity, and politics within
the Muslim countries. She was more so into politics. One of her famous films
called “Women without Men” made in the year
2009, won the prestigious Silver Lion award at the Venice Film Festival. She makes
her work seem as if her aim, her purpose is to speak about no matter what
status of a woman you are. Whether it being the top 10% to middle class or even
the low 1% the struggle is the same. They all have vaginas and because of that
there is a consequence. She put emphasis on Muslim countries only because being
a woman was harsher but that didn’t stop her from sharing her knowledge and
make sure her art exhibits out side of the Muslims countries to get her message
across. One piece I enjoyed to the point where I, personally was in years would
have to be Women of Allah. The reason because I just started crying the image is
so controversial to me, how women have rules and regulations, yet we try to
break through and them ourselves value for who we are. This image says it all.
Last
but certainly not least Jenny Saville. Jenny Saville
was a contemporary British painter. Her work consists of painting female nudes
in extreme states of grotesque embellishment. To be more specific the state of
them included being deformed, obese, or even brutalized. The purpose just
worked against the male-dominated history of idealized portraits of women, otherwise
known as the male gaze. It still amazes me how it’s still present. The injury
of Saville’s human subjects, whether it would often be it bleeding or more specifically
grabbing at their own skin, resembled to her portraits of slaughtered animals,
both ludicrous and objectified. The painting to the right is called “Rosetta 2”
and it is honestly the scariest thing I have seen. The details aren’t accurate
but are shaped in a blurred way to make it seem even more threatening. This was
just an example of the kind of work she did, she has other paintings which are
fall fuller of gore, the best way to describe them would be murder scenes.
Work
Cited
http://www.artnet.com/artists/jenny-saville/rosetta-2-bot9DsECY3Ga2dkH2vh8ww2
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