Lezley Saar was born in 1953 in Los Angeles California. Saar became known for transforming old books into assemblages. She attended the L'Institut Francais de Photographie in Paris, she also attended the San Francisco State University and received her B.A at the California State University at Northridge. In 2000, she won an award at the California State Senate Contemporary Art Collection. Saar’s artwork has been exhibited at many places such as the MOCA Museum, the Ackland Art Museum and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art.
One of the purposes of Lezley Saar’s recent exhibition at the California African American Museum is to represent and commemorate marginalized artists who were excluded from attending an art exhibition in Paris during the …show more content…
The woman’s skin pigment is dark emphasizing the fact that she is a woman of color. The painting contains an almost monochromatic stencil background. Two different shades of light gray color along with printed roses serve as the background of the painting making it possible for the woman to become the focal point. As your eye meets the inferior portion of the painting, you will be able to identify the fact that the woman doesn’t have feet, and instead tree roots merge from the bottom of her dress connecting with different illustrated scenarios. The woman’s facial expression lets us know that she might have some type preoccupancy about these “abnormal” almost hallucinating scenarios.
Through the “Madwoman in the Attic/Madness” painting, Lezley Saar wanted to illustrate how women struggled to adjust to patriarchal norms where they were perceived as submissive and unintellectual beings. She also wanted to portray how women were outcast characters for many decades within the art world; how their work got rejected many times not because of their lack of professionalism, but because of one irrelevant reason, their
One of the purposes of Lezley Saar’s recent exhibition at the California African American Museum is to represent and commemorate marginalized artists who were excluded from attending an art exhibition in Paris during the …show more content…
The woman’s skin pigment is dark emphasizing the fact that she is a woman of color. The painting contains an almost monochromatic stencil background. Two different shades of light gray color along with printed roses serve as the background of the painting making it possible for the woman to become the focal point. As your eye meets the inferior portion of the painting, you will be able to identify the fact that the woman doesn’t have feet, and instead tree roots merge from the bottom of her dress connecting with different illustrated scenarios. The woman’s facial expression lets us know that she might have some type preoccupancy about these “abnormal” almost hallucinating scenarios.
Through the “Madwoman in the Attic/Madness” painting, Lezley Saar wanted to illustrate how women struggled to adjust to patriarchal norms where they were perceived as submissive and unintellectual beings. She also wanted to portray how women were outcast characters for many decades within the art world; how their work got rejected many times not because of their lack of professionalism, but because of one irrelevant reason, their