what is the sociological/political significance of the pieces?
http://www.fashion.at/culture/beecroft10-2003.jpg
http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue5/images/nude_2.jpg
2007-03-11 16:19:36 · 4 answers · asked by pp_pepona 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
To follow up on the Currin piece as a parallel to Mary N's fine answer regarding the Beecroft piece:
This is a painting of Bea (pronounced Bee) Arthur who played Maude in the 70s sitcom of the same name. Maude was a very liberated, independent older woman. So, to anyone who grew up in the 70s watching Maude this painting has an effect that is probably similar to seeing your mother painted nude.
Currin is playing with our ideas regarding women and their representation in art, TV and popular culture in general. If an older independent woman is painted as a kind of ersatz cheesecake image, does her stature diminish?
2007-03-11 17:18:15 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beecroft works are all performance pieces. You actually are looking at a photograph OF the piece... not the piece itself. She usually dresses a bunch of similar looking people in some state of undress in a public place. From what I remember, the models are simply told to stand there, and not to communicate or touch one another. Outside of that, it is simply the awkward-ness of the relationship between "viewer" and "performer", as the performers are looking back at you (not always, but many times). She once did a piece with a group of men dressed as soldiers standing in formation... I can't remember what country or branch of service the costumes were from. But, I would think it mainly sociological, or phychological. The Tateet work I am unfamiliar with, but again the topless woman is staring back at you, to make you self-reflect on your perceptions of her.
2007-03-11 23:54:46 · answer #2 · answered by MARY N 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well,....lol,...their pictures of only woman,....I'm geussing the socialogical/political significance would have something to do with perhaps Femmenism.
In the first pic, 3 woman are dress the same(shoes & hair only). Could this mean they are stripped from individual identy?..or belong together in a group?
Both pictures could mean or symbolize lots of things. Alot of things can be associated & related to them.
An artist or photographer usually leaves clues of what the pictures are about in the titles.
2007-03-11 23:42:02 · answer #3 · answered by Stony 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have idea sorry wow
2007-03-11 23:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by psychic 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋