The Cindy Sherman Effect - Phoebe Hoban
“So much of her work is performance, so much is improvisation, so much is theater. I am sure there are all kinds of people who look at Cindy as their god.”
I never send any of her work but from looking at her series, and coming from a performance background I can see the art, performance, and theater witching her work, the way it stands out and distort from any other photographer was really interesting to me
“The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of take that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool.’”
It’s hard for the male gaze to except the fact that women are capable than just being a house wife and obeys their husbands but in reality most of the men in history were taken credit for anything a women invented, created, or wrote. No matter how hard they try to keep women out of the eyes of society, one way or another they will be seen.
The Ugly Beauty of Cindy Sherman - Parul Sehgal
“In fact, her images are so foundational to feminist art criticism, to notions of the “male gaze,” that it can be difficult to see them for themselves — they come to us encrusted with theory.”
Obviously a male wouldn’t understand the work of a women if their mind is set on a one way street, you have to be able to cancel out judgment in the world of art , any and everything can be art.
“It was easy to erase myself and put on somebody else’s face and say, ‘Maybe now you guys will remember me,’ or ‘How about this face or that character?’ ” But sometimes it was safer to be forgotten.”
I related to this because that’s how I was for some time, dancing for 15 years allowed me to create characters that gave the best impression when it came to performances, at times I left everything at the door and just danced, I wasn’t Jean, but just a dancer
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