gorillagirlsChristinaRamirez
The Guerilla Girls presentation was really informative; it was a great example of what I like to refer to as vigil anti art.The presentation really opened my eyes to the kinds of struggles professional female artists face in the art world, but I can't say that that has been my experience too in regular society. However, their campaign is one of many we are trying to identify in the cps studio.
What I found most interesting about the Guerilla Girls was their use of imagery to stretch and mutate old meaning and ideas associated with images. One clear example of this is in their use of classical paintings that bear the gorilla mask on posters that were seen plastered all throughout New York City. I love how they took an old image and added it to a new image to create a piece of art (art?,propoganda?)that resembles the image word projects we accomplished in the studio. I am beginning to see how this process of combining images with other images, and images and words saturates contemporary art today.
The dolls that Frieda Khalo presented as slides bring up another example of how thier work is relative to the studio. Dolls are a cultural rite of passage for many woman and the irony in these sterotype dolls creates an interesting collection. What a powerful image to leave with, and it conjured up ideas about how "dolls are our (mostly women) first encounter with ideas about womanhood-what it means to be a woman" and "what if we were to show girls the real ideas about woman that are out there."
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