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The African mask has appeared in various forms and has been adapted in countless ways in Western art as a typification of ceremonial masquerade. In the 2016 Brooklyn Museum exhibition titled Disguise: Masks and Global African Art, twenty-five contemporary artists attempted to bridge the gap between mask and masquerade by both historically contextualizing and re-creating the part that the African mask and masquerade play today. The Helmet Mask (Gbetu) with Raffia Costume was created during the…

I can 't prove anything of course, but does it actually matter? The fact that somehow I could have helped a young Mother living off benefits indirectly; fills me with pride. I see it similar to a Banksy wall painting, except I did it legally and without the council having to paint over the doodles before he became good at his art, he has inspired many. Creativity usually is inspired or influenced by what is around us and even though Rowling lacks…

In Robert Hughes text ‘The Shock of the New’, he confronts Picasso’s painting Guernica and discusses the importance of the artwork, as well as how art/artists have changed since the production of the painting. Robert Hughes was an Australian born art critic and writer. ‘The Shock of the New’ is part of a larger text of Hughes’ called ‘The faces of Power’, and the Shock of the New was made into a television series that Hughes produced. In his text, Hughes claimed that Guernica was the last great…

When people think about Graffiti, they mainly picture males, such as Banksy or Shepard Fairey. Many people do not think of Lady Pink or Femme9 because they do not relate graffiti to being done by a woman, even though they have been in the field for just as long as men have. Women have always been involved in this culture, but there are just fewer of them in the primarily male dominated field. Likewise, their work can go unnoticed because it is often destroyed or covered up shortly after…

STREET ART Street art is a unique form of modern artistic expression. It has become a part of the urban environment, growing and changing with the city and the people that live there. Street art can comment on a social issue, poke fun at some aspect of society, or simply beautify a run-down area of the city. Even though the modern style of street art and graffiti was developed and perfected in the 1970s, elements of graffiti can be traced all the way back to the early 19th century. Today, street…

This essay will introduce the themes of feminist approaches within performance art, in relation to the female body. Focusing in on the feminist approaches such as: violence against the female body that is used in cinema and film. Discussing the way of displaying the violence and how that challenges the female body, in order to create a memorable performance or cinematic film. These specific themes will link to the artist Ana Mendieta, through examining her works ‘Rape Scene’ and ‘Death of a…