I admire the way Leibovitz positions her subjects; she often positioned her them in ways that look more like the subject's projection of themselves. Therefore, when Leibovitz takes photos, she captured the vision of the subjects have for themselves instead of creating the objectifies the person. The fetal position of Lennon, hanging on to Yoko was more telling of the kind of the relationship the couple shared. John and Yoko exclaimed to Annie“You’ve captured our relationship exactly.”
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| John Lennon and Yoko Ono by Annie Leibovitz 1980 |
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| A Real Woman, Polly Nor |
The second artist I want to talk about is Polly Norton. Polly Nor is a 29 years old female illustrator from northwest London. She graduated in 2011 from Loughborough University. She is best known for her illustrations: “Women and their demons,” which is inspired by her own female experience, sexuality, and female anxieties in the current internet age. Her drawings of women and devils in various states of both physical and spiritual undress provides a much-needed humorous look at sexuality and the female experience in the internet age.
I went to the Brooklyn Museum several weeks ago, while I was there "The Dinner Party" impressed me significantly, which bring me to the nest artist that I want to talk about: the creator of The Dinner Party----Judy Chicago.
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| The Dinner Party Judy Chicago
Judy Chicago is an American feminist artist, art educator and writer known for "her large collaborative art installation pieces about birth and creation images, which examine the role of women in history and culture. By the 1970s, Chicago had founded the first feminist art program in the United States. Chicago's work incorporates a variety of artistic skills, such as needlework, counterbalanced with labor-intensive skills such as welding and pyrotechnics" (Wikipedia).
The Dinner Party is Chicago's most well-known work, which is feminist artists' installation artworks. It is a representation of feminist art in the 1970s and a milestone of twentieth-century art.
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Each plate, "except the ones corresponding to Sojourner Truth and Ethel Smyth, depicts a brightly colored, elaborately styled vulva"(The Dinner Party - Wikipedia) form as we can see from below pictures.
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Susan B. Anthony |
The artwork on the left is placed setting at The Dinner Party for Susan B. Anthony, which represents Judy Chicago’s belief in the activist’s position as "Queen of the Table." Those plates are very dynamic and are posed artistically to show the artists' emotions and beliefs, which are impressive. "The three-dimensional form of her plate lifts from the surface with great force in a vain effort to escape its confines representing the suffragist’s struggle for freedom—a struggle Anthony did not win in her lifetime"(Brooklyn Museum: Susan B. Anthony).
Furthermore, each capital letter of Susan B. Anthony’s name is illuminated, and according to Judy Chicago: it was to mean to "illustrate Anthony’s dedication to the cause, her relationship with Elizabeth Stanton, and her place in U.S. history respectively (Chicago, The Dinner Party)."
When I first look at the artworks, I did not understand them, but after the professor's explanation, I do feel those arts are powerful especially after Tuesday's class. In the class, we watched a video which talks about how the Congress felt about The Dinner Party at the time. Everyone in the Congress except one person thought the work is "disgusting." I was shocked by people's reactions, but at the same time, I was also amazed by how the society has been developed that more and more people start to understand the meaning behind The Dinner Party. Also, I was pleased to see that more and more women are daring to speak up for all females.
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| Kiki Smith |
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| Kiki Smith 1997 Las Animas |
The other artwork that caught my attention is Kiki Smith's Las Animas. Kiki Smith is an American artist; her work is known for the discussion of sex, birth, and regeneration. Kiki Smith has long "explored the physical and psychological aspects of the female embodiment within a feminist context." As we can see in the left picture, she cropped the images of her own body in an aggressive way, which is extremely eye-catching and it shows the artist's emotions frankly. It is almost like you can see her soul from those photos, just like the title suggested.
The last artist that I want to talk about is Pan Yuliang. Pan was born in Yangzhou China, Her original name was Chen Xiuqing, and she was renamed by her maternal uncle when she was adopted after the early passing of her parents.
Pan Yuliang was the first woman in China to paint in the Western style. She had studied in Shanghai and Paris. During the 1930s China was still very conservative, her modernist works attracted controversy and brought severe criticism.
She returned to Paris in 1937 to live and work for the next 40 years. Pan had exhibits internationally and was collected by major institutions. In 1985 after her death, much of her work was transported to China, collected by the National Art Museum in the capital of Beijing.
Work Cited
The Dinner Party, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dinner_PartyBrooklyn Museum: Susan B. Anthony, https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/susan_b_anthony
How artist polly nor uses frustration, anxiety, and sadness to fuel her creativity
https://i-d.vice.com/en_us/article/xwdx4j/how-artist-polly-nor-uses-frustration-anxiety-and-sadness-to-fuel-her-creativity
Judy Chicago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Chicago
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