Guerrilla girls
The contemporary poster “Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the MET Mueseum,” (1989) was made by the Guerilla girls in response to the conscious and unconscious discrimination in the art world at the time. The Guerrilla Girls are intersectional feminist activist artists who since their inception have underminde the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory and subtext in order to expose bad behaviour in the art world. Working collaboratively as a group to discuss and brain storm creative ways to use facts and humour to reach a wide audience and grab the attention of millions.
- Through public collections theyre statements are made permanent into records, their critiques on 20th and 21st century art world
Although female artists had played a …show more content…
Subject matter+ COMPOSTION: what is it a picture of, what images, text used, are they dound or created, where originals come from, what do they mean in new context, how juxtaposed to create contrast, what is the work about how does imagery and texy relate and convery meaning about the culture, how has the artisit organised the subject within the space?
The defacing of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, one of the most famous nudes is an image composed to embarrass one of the art world's most sanctified institutions. “Do women have to been naked to get into the met” matches the Guerrilla Girls portfolio of packaging protests in provocative forms with gorilla masks. The Guerrilla girls repurposing Ingres’ reclining nude in posters entering and circulating the city through mainstream culture by renting advertising space on buses; high art has been vulgarised and taken out of the upper class and bourgeois and been open to the whole of society. Morphing the same perfect canon of woman from the art world since Titans’ Venus and using it for completely a different mean is incredibly powerful. Odalisque is used to move beyond the objectification of the
The contemporary poster “Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the MET Mueseum,” (1989) was made by the Guerilla girls in response to the conscious and unconscious discrimination in the art world at the time. The Guerrilla Girls are intersectional feminist activist artists who since their inception have underminde the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory and subtext in order to expose bad behaviour in the art world. Working collaboratively as a group to discuss and brain storm creative ways to use facts and humour to reach a wide audience and grab the attention of millions.
- Through public collections theyre statements are made permanent into records, their critiques on 20th and 21st century art world
Although female artists had played a …show more content…
Subject matter+ COMPOSTION: what is it a picture of, what images, text used, are they dound or created, where originals come from, what do they mean in new context, how juxtaposed to create contrast, what is the work about how does imagery and texy relate and convery meaning about the culture, how has the artisit organised the subject within the space?
The defacing of Jean-August-Dominique Ingres's La Grande Odalisque, one of the most famous nudes is an image composed to embarrass one of the art world's most sanctified institutions. “Do women have to been naked to get into the met” matches the Guerrilla Girls portfolio of packaging protests in provocative forms with gorilla masks. The Guerrilla girls repurposing Ingres’ reclining nude in posters entering and circulating the city through mainstream culture by renting advertising space on buses; high art has been vulgarised and taken out of the upper class and bourgeois and been open to the whole of society. Morphing the same perfect canon of woman from the art world since Titans’ Venus and using it for completely a different mean is incredibly powerful. Odalisque is used to move beyond the objectification of the