Ana Mendieta, Untitled: Silueta Series, 1976-1978
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Female Gaze: Art that Looks at What Women See | NYTIMES
“The female artists’ gaze is shaped by their lived experiences, which are different for women and men.”
- In life, men and women encounter different problems, solve problems in different ways, and look at problems in different ways.
Ana Mendieta: Artist Who Pushed Boundaries | NYTimes
“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.”
- Ana's personality shapes her artistic style, which gives her artwork a distinctly personal touch.
Ways of Seeing, Chapters 2+3
“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.”
- People are used to viewing women as beautiful exhibits and taking pleasure in doing so.
"But the essential way of seeing women, the essential use to which their images are put, has not changed. Women are depicted in a quite different way from men -- not because the feminine is different from the masculine -- but because the "ideal" spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him."
- People view men and women differently because stereotypes about men and women influence people's perceptions.
What is the Male Gaze?
- The Male Gaze refers to the perspective and representation of women in media and art, where the viewer's (assumed to be male) point of view is central. It often objectifies and sexualizes women for the pleasure of the male viewer.
What is the Female Gaze?
- The concept of the ‘female gaze’ could be seen as a response to feminist film theorist Laura Mulvey’s term, the ‘male gaze’, which represents the gaze of a heterosexual male viewer along with the male character and the male creator of the film.
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