Project Proposal

Tulsi Raja Semester Project

The term “male gaze” has been subject of debate btw many historians. My project will be a informative article on 

the artist(s) who worked on how they perceived women. Artist, Edourard Manet, made paintings on the roles of women within the society; Olympia 1863 and The Luncheon on the Gras 1862-1863 which displayed a female physique for th=e pleasure of the male viewer. I plan to gather Manet's work with other art works that display women stereotypes in paintings (art) and media. Artists such as Cindy Sherman will be in the magazine article, because her work touches up on the male gaze and stereotyping of women.

My project will focus on the male gaze, on how women are viewed with many of the same stereotypes from the 9th century to today (2017). The magazine article will display idea of Guerrilla Girls, artists Manet and Sherman, concept of "male gaze" and analyze how the women stereotypes are still around today. 

Perceived gender differences between men and women have been on going debate for years. In a study in United Kingdom wrote, " Many men and women find having a formal or informal mentor an important helping factor with their career progression. However, it appears that there are some differences in the way men and women describe what they found most valuable about the mentoring relationship. Women tended to concentrate on the ways in which their mentors had helped them build their internal confidence and help them to do thing for themselves. While men's answers were more instrumental and they offered specific examples where mentors had helped them, for example to write a book, get onto editorial board or apply for a research grant" (Oxford). It was interesting to see that men and women were able to work together but it was not always like that. In this class this semester I learned that females were greater artists than I already knew, because we weren't really introduced to many. In reference, Chadwick states that “our language and expectations about art have tended to rank that produced by women as below that produced by men in “quality”, resulting in lesser monetary value. This has profoundly influenced our knowledge and understanding of the contributions made by women to painting and sculpture” (Chadwick).