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Oct. 18th, 2005 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rumtastiqueI decided to do the weekly art early this week. This week's theme: differing attitudes about the female form.
Disclaimer: one image likely NSFW, given nekkidness.
First picture is:
Cleopatra, by Artemisia Gentileschi, possibly the woman closest to counting as "great" along with michelangelo, etc. She has an almost unrivaled approach to chiaroscuro, the technique of juxtaposition of brightly lit areas and deep shadows. Cleopatra killed herslef by snakebite rather than see her country overrun by the Greeks, if I recall correctly. I'm a little rusty.
At the other end of the scale is our second image:
This is the Primordial Goddess Plate by Judy Chicago from the Dinner Party. The Dinner Party is an installation art work from the seventies. It's a triangular table with 13 place settings on each side, for a total of 39, and each place setting represents a different woman in history. Each place setting has a decorative plate, goblet and embroidered placemat. The plates all reference butterfly/vaginal imagery as part of the early feminist reveling in the female experience and celebrating that which women had traditionally been ashamed of. It was a highly controversial work, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum, that bastion of cutting edge art. (It was the museum shut down by Giuliani in the late nineties on grounds of indecency/obscenity over the Sensation show, an exhibit by up and coming British artists, most notably Chris Ofili, who used cut up pornography and elephant dung to make religious images.) For more information on the Dinner Party, see Judy Chicago's website at http://www.judychicago.com/
Disclaimer: one image likely NSFW, given nekkidness.
First picture is:
Cleopatra, by Artemisia Gentileschi, possibly the woman closest to counting as "great" along with michelangelo, etc. She has an almost unrivaled approach to chiaroscuro, the technique of juxtaposition of brightly lit areas and deep shadows. Cleopatra killed herslef by snakebite rather than see her country overrun by the Greeks, if I recall correctly. I'm a little rusty.
At the other end of the scale is our second image:
This is the Primordial Goddess Plate by Judy Chicago from the Dinner Party. The Dinner Party is an installation art work from the seventies. It's a triangular table with 13 place settings on each side, for a total of 39, and each place setting represents a different woman in history. Each place setting has a decorative plate, goblet and embroidered placemat. The plates all reference butterfly/vaginal imagery as part of the early feminist reveling in the female experience and celebrating that which women had traditionally been ashamed of. It was a highly controversial work, now housed at the Brooklyn Museum, that bastion of cutting edge art. (It was the museum shut down by Giuliani in the late nineties on grounds of indecency/obscenity over the Sensation show, an exhibit by up and coming British artists, most notably Chris Ofili, who used cut up pornography and elephant dung to make religious images.) For more information on the Dinner Party, see Judy Chicago's website at http://www.judychicago.com/
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Date: 2005-10-18 02:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-18 04:53 pm (UTC)Both of these are gorgeous. The second one actually hit something in me (which is rare with me when it comes to visual art)