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in22 Tuesday May 2012
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inObviously, Wes Anderson is a genius, i love him. His filming aesthetic has been inspiring me since before forever but his leading ladies tend to always capture what it means to be a muse. Whether it be melodramatic, head strong, confident, and/or purely feminine, his female characters embody the muse persona in which forever prevails. I literally cannot wait for his next film Moonrise Kingdom.
15 Tuesday May 2012
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inLegendary feminist artists, Judy Chicago & Miriam Schapiro took on a progressive Feminist Art Program at the California Institute of the Arts. Womanhouse, a collection of installations and performances produced in a refurbished Los Angeles house in 1971-2 with help from their students, exaggerated the stereotypical normative roles of women as mothers and housekeepers to embrace a highly undervalued form of female labor and to demonstrate their rather oppressive stereotypes. Installations therefore took to specific destinations in the house where both a biological and social aspect could be represented.
Cited Work: American Art Since 1945 by David Joselit
Linen Closet – Sandy Orgel
Nightmare Bathroom – Robbin Schiff
Lipstick bathroom – Camille Grey 1972
Menstruation Bathroom – Judy Chicago 1972
Nurturant Kitchen – Susan Frazier, Vicki Hodgetts, Robin Weltsch
Judy & Miriam
14 Monday May 2012
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in08 Tuesday May 2012
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inBeing a woman throughout human history has been a constant struggle so when some of us come along and cause a stir, I absolutely love it and find it totally justified. I mean, the first piece of work I studied of Schneemann’s was of her pulling a paper scroll out of her vagina, so needless to say, a TOTAL MUSE.
Carolee, born October 12, 1939, is an epic female American visual artist well known for outrageous discourses on sexulaity, the body, and gender. Labeled as a Feminist icon, her work is widely noted for exploring issues in art history in which address feminist topics. Carloee’s work also focused on the separation between eroticism and the politics of gender and for this she brought unique feminine perspective to the art world and the public sphere.
Interior Scroll, 1975 – A very raw Fluxus-influenced event using text and her body where Schneemann entering the art space wrapped in a sheet and apron, she got on a table, disrobed to viewers her body in which she outlined in dark paint and read from her book Cezanne, She was a Great Painter aloud until dropping the book to then slowly extract a scroll from her vagina which she also read from.
This work was later said to influence a change of masculinity that dominated Minimalist and Conceptual Art at the time and into a Feminist exploration of the body.
Go Nude
07 Monday May 2012
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in05 Saturday May 2012
Although Monday has passed and I was so overloaded with homework thus didn’t get to do a Monday Muse, I thought I’d make up for it with more media and muse multiples, The Guerrilla Girls.
The ultimate appropriation artists. These artist activists involved in the birth of the 1980’s feminist movement first used appropriation techniques to question social injustices. Manipulating the mechanisms of gender identification the Guerrilla Girls used art as an outlet to achieve public awareness to further expose sexism, racism, and corruption in art, pop culture, politics, and film. The Guerrilla Girls’ outrageous radically noticeable humorous factual visuals expressed the unfair subtext of the world we live in, and in which we often forget.
The Guerrilla Girls around the world have organized protests, published books with their statistical data/protest art/goals toward liberating the many inequalities of the art world, have presented at public speaking events, and have conducted surveys about female artists as well as those of color in museums and galleries bringing further awareness to the public sphere.
Although official membership (in NYC) is invite only, the group tends to promote those whom claim to be Guerrilla Girls anyway so GO APE!
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