How do we think about Gender and Sexual Difference?
In this Lecture, we talked about how we though about Gender and Sexual Difference. We looked at this topic, as it related to the topics that we had look at in the past few lectures about Modernism, Post-Modernism and the subject of subjectivity.
The first part that we talked about in this lecture was the era of 1960’s to 1970’s. Vietnam Year. We watched a short film known as War Women Art Revolution which was premiered in Liverpool in 2010. The film was made of 40 years. The cultural and political climate was known as Black Power. Within the film the women in the film had many opinions about women art revolution. They looked at many different pieces of artwork that had been created by different women throughout the years. The film was full of facts about the women right act. In 1960 it was when art and political topics were fused together. Women always thought that they were alone through this time. How dare you Question? More people started to be the voice of the revolution as more people got involved, with the art to represent the women art revolution. Judith Baca, painting, she wanted to make about about culture and send a message through the painting that she created. The work was very different in the 1960’s to 1970’s. Whitney art company New York city exhibition. Femininity Movement. Whitney was the first art museum that had 50% men and 50% women visit, were they used fake press releases of eggs that was projected on the outside walls of the building. Where an artist painted 50% on them to represent the art of women that was recognised in time by different people. The first feminist’s art project was first set up in 1960’s, which was mainly related to the United States of America.
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We then talked about the feminism movement in the United Kingdom, where we looked at two books that related very well to the movement, these were Framing Feminism and framing art and the women’s movement Feminism, where the main movement was started in 1980’s, which is a different history to the one in America that happened in 1960’s.
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The story of art, had been printed 16 times. Linda Nochlin said why aren’t there no great women artists. As there is lots of men such as Leonardo Di Vinci. Linda Nochlin said:
"The Fault lies not in our stars, our hormones, our mestural cycle, or empty internal spaces, but in our institutions and our education - education understood to include everything that happens to us from the moment we enter this worldof meaningful symbols, signs and signals".
- Linda Nochlin 'Why have there been no great women Artists?' 1971
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This quote related to the book known as Old Mistress written by Roszika Parker and Griselda Pollock 1981.
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After this we then looked into what was meant by Ideology.
What is Ideology?
Systems of Belief.
We then looked at the painting by Jacques-Louis David called The Oath of the Horatii, 1784. This picture is about three brothers, were it displays men with strengths and women as weakness, as men are stood with swords, whilst women are just sat behind them. The men are active and the women are passive.
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Henri Matisse The painter and his model 1917.
The painter is active as it is a man that doesn’t have clothes on, however the women is passive as she is the opposite and clothed.
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Allen Jones 1969.
This picture displays a woman like a piece
of furniture. This displays us that we as women are like a piece occurring to
other people.
Cyber feminism that started in the late 1990’s.
Western people were out raged by the act that happened in 2003 by the Russian
riot that took place at the Russian cathedral when the three women were sent to
far away prisons in Siberia.
I found that this lecture was good, as learnt a lot about how women artists are displayed differently to men, and that the work from a woman designer can be viewed very differently to men. I am going to make sure that my work in the future will inspire everyone.
