Wednesday, October 20, 2010

10/21 response

The women in the various art movements that we have studied, to me, have been kind of hindered by the artist's society. There's always this emphasis on the peculiarity of the women in art in the descriptions of the art movements, and I think this is because to be taken seriously in the world of art, they had to be unconventional. They seemed to have to be twice as unusual than the men to gain any sort of attention. Their free sexuality is always mentioned as some kind of rebellion against conventionalism, but to me the rebellion is more of a meeting of expectations from the artistic community. The women supposedly partook in heavy drinking, smoking, and sex, but this kind of behavior had always been acted out by men. As for their art, they seem to be overshadowed by the men--not by their masculine predisposition to be more readilty appreciated, but by the art itself. The women tend to be mostly followers of the more adept experimental men.

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