WEEKLY SELFIE 3 - Arianna Almaguer

 Art That Looks at What Women See quote

QUOTE: “Today that may not sound so special, but then in those times it was incredibly important,” she said. “They created a shift, a change in perspective, from being the model, the person a painter is looking at, to being the painter herself.” From Theodora Vischer

RESPONSE: She talks about how women’s role in art has changed and because of that, back then, women were used as models just for male painters. Becuase of this women had started getting tired of being seen like objects so they broke free from that and became painters.

Overlooked  No More: Ana Mendieta's quote 

QUOTE: “Nothing that she did ever surprised me,” Mendieta’s sister, Raquelín told New York Times. “She was always very dramatic, even as a child — and liked to push the envelope, to give people a start, to shock them a little bit. It was who she was, and she enjoyed it very much. And she laughed about it sometimes when people got freaked out.”

RESPONSE: The courage that Ana was showing was a huge part like it was a way of who she was and how she really expressed herself with her art. This made us and everyone understand her personality and her artworks.

READINGS: John Berger Chapter 2 + 3

QUOTE: “By contrast, a woman's presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her period.”

RESPONSE: For a woman, what she does, is a reflection of the way how she sees herself and if she was or were to disrespect herself then she is allowing the world to not appreciate her and make her seem she's weak. Many women starts to think that everything they do is just to meet the standards of being around men. 

QUOTE: “The way the painter has painted her includes her will and her intentions in the very structure of the image, in the very expression of her body and her face.”

RESPONSE: Women were only ever painted just for the entertainment for men. Misogyny is everywhere and we are still to this day that men still thinks that we should me owned and be treasured and shown off as a prize that was won at a fair. Us women were expected to not talk back, submit to your partner no matter what and can’t do things or go out almost as if we should stay like a wife-house from back in time.