Research pt 3.
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In the post below I would like to present you the third part of the research I claimed during preparing to create my project.
Hannah Wilke is the third artist I noticed when creating my project. She is an American artist of Jewish origin. She was a beautiful woman, painter, sculptor, photographer and performance artist. Her work presents above all a confrontation with feminism, sexuality and femininity.
Her work is very inspiring to me in that she was a woman who knows what she wants and how to convey it. She believed that femininity is not what the media and magazines show, which create an idealized image of the silhouette and appearance, which can ultimately cause women to have complexes and not accept themselves. As the artist herself cited by Artnet (n.d.) said “To diffuse self-prejudice women must take control of and have pride in the sensuality of their own bodies and create a sensuality in their own terms, without referring to the concepts degenerated by culture,”. These words and her work can be associated with today's world of social media, where, thanks to the photos taken on Instagram, young women fall into complexes.
One of her most famous works and exactly the one that I want to discuss in today's post is S.O.S. Starification Object Series (1974–75).
The author's work is a set of photographs in which Wilke herself poses half-naked with thrown vagina-shaped gums attached to her body. She poses in a very glamorous style herself, which is to symbolize in combination with chewing gum vaginas mocking the feminity portrayed in the media.
The author used chewing gum to create her performance because she compared mocking the approach of American men to women, saying "I chose gum because it's the perfect metaphor for the American woman - chew her up, get what you want out of her, throw her out and pop in a new piece. " (The Art Story, 2020)
All photos taken in black and white were made of professional tools that would be suitable for magazine covers. The portraits on which Wilke appears are largely topless, well lit and framed. The light is located on the right side of the figure, we can conclude because of the shadow that appears on the left of the model in most photos. The composition of the entire photo is preserved and all elements work together.
References:
ARTNET, (n.d). Hannah Wilke | Artnet. [online] Artnet.com. Available at: <http://www.artnet.com/artists/hannah-wilke/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
REID, S., (2020). Hannah Wilke S.O.S. – Starification Object Series (1974-82). [image] Available at: <https://sachareidfineart.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/hannah-wilke-sos-starification-object-series-1974-82/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
The Art Story, (2020). Hannah Wilke (1940-1993). [image] Available at: <https://m.theartstory.org/artist/wilke-hannah/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
THE ART STORY, (2020). Hannah Wilke Artworks & Famous Paintings. [online] The Art Story. Available at: <https://www.theartstory.org/artist/wilke-hannah/artworks/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
In the post below I would like to present you the third part of the research I claimed during preparing to create my project.
Hannah Wilke is the third artist I noticed when creating my project. She is an American artist of Jewish origin. She was a beautiful woman, painter, sculptor, photographer and performance artist. Her work presents above all a confrontation with feminism, sexuality and femininity.
Her work is very inspiring to me in that she was a woman who knows what she wants and how to convey it. She believed that femininity is not what the media and magazines show, which create an idealized image of the silhouette and appearance, which can ultimately cause women to have complexes and not accept themselves. As the artist herself cited by Artnet (n.d.) said “To diffuse self-prejudice women must take control of and have pride in the sensuality of their own bodies and create a sensuality in their own terms, without referring to the concepts degenerated by culture,”. These words and her work can be associated with today's world of social media, where, thanks to the photos taken on Instagram, young women fall into complexes.
One of her most famous works and exactly the one that I want to discuss in today's post is S.O.S. Starification Object Series (1974–75).
The author used chewing gum to create her performance because she compared mocking the approach of American men to women, saying "I chose gum because it's the perfect metaphor for the American woman - chew her up, get what you want out of her, throw her out and pop in a new piece. " (The Art Story, 2020)
All photos taken in black and white were made of professional tools that would be suitable for magazine covers. The portraits on which Wilke appears are largely topless, well lit and framed. The light is located on the right side of the figure, we can conclude because of the shadow that appears on the left of the model in most photos. The composition of the entire photo is preserved and all elements work together.
References:
ARTNET, (n.d). Hannah Wilke | Artnet. [online] Artnet.com. Available at: <http://www.artnet.com/artists/hannah-wilke/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
REID, S., (2020). Hannah Wilke S.O.S. – Starification Object Series (1974-82). [image] Available at: <https://sachareidfineart.wordpress.com/2019/04/13/hannah-wilke-sos-starification-object-series-1974-82/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
The Art Story, (2020). Hannah Wilke (1940-1993). [image] Available at: <https://m.theartstory.org/artist/wilke-hannah/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
THE ART STORY, (2020). Hannah Wilke Artworks & Famous Paintings. [online] The Art Story. Available at: <https://www.theartstory.org/artist/wilke-hannah/artworks/> [Accessed 7 June 2020].
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