Weekly Selfie #3 - Nicole Corvi

 Weekly Selfie #3 - Ana Mendieta

    This is my interpretation on a portrait from Ana Mendieta's series, "Self Portrait with Blood." I used a various makeup products to create fake blood and mimic the stains Mendieta has all over her face. While editing, I played with hues, blurs, and grains to resemble similar lighting and color schemes she uses in her image. 

1. Art That Looks at What Women See - Nina Siegal 

"Ms. Vischer said that she ultimately concluded that there probably was no single way to define how women artists perceive their subjects. But she did concede: 'The female artists’ gaze is shaped by their lived experiences, which are different for women and men.'"

2. Overlooked No More: Ana Mendieta, a Cuban Artist Who Pushed Boundaries - Monica Castillo

"'It’s about kind of capturing moments through various forms of documentation. And she takes all of these things to the world at large that might not be considered fine arts. She turns them into something intelligent, harrowing and emotional'"

John Berger - Chapters 2 + 3

1. "Their nakedness acts as a confirmation and provokes a very strong sense of relief. She is a woman like any other : or he is a man like any other : we are overwhelmed by the marvelous simplicity of the familiar sexual mechanism," ( Berger 59).

2. "One might simplify this by saying : men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at,"(Berger 47).