The Cindy Sherman effect
By deconstructing and reinventing portraiture, which in itself was something of a dead genre when she arrived on the scene, Sherman influenced not only photographers but also painters and performance and video artists.
Sherman’s dazzling skill as a perpetual shape-shifter is perhaps her major contribution to contemporary art.
This article was interesting to me because I feel like Cindy Sherman recreated portraiture. Everyone around these times used portraiture and photography as something serious but I feel as though she played around with it and made it fun. It is definitely up to the viewer to depict and interpret her pieces. They are very creative and different and kind of remind me of modern day filters. She shape shifts and camoflauges with her times, so her artwork always has relevancy.
Ugly Beauty
She has transformed herself into vamps and victims, biker chicks and slasher babes, lonely-hearts and killer clowns.
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.
I find it interesting that Sherman reflects her work and explores her femininity. Through all of her pieces of work she portrays herself very different and does not have 1 aesthetic but she portrays herself as magnitudes of images. I find this very cool and relatable because she can empathize with a vast audience and this is what draws so much attention to her work.
The image I have chose to mimic is the one shown below titled Hauser & Wirth
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