Marina's weekly selfie - Glass on Face

Ana Mendieta 

I inspired by the idea of pressing her face and parts of her body on the glass to distorting and transforming the appearance of her physical features and youthful beauty. Instead she used the power of her body to change the gaze of the photography

Bell hooks Understanding Patriarchy

• To indoctrinate boys into the rules of Patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feeling. 

• Keeping males and females from telling the truth about what happened to them in families is one way Patriarchal culture is maintained 

The oppositional Gaze

• We come home to ourselves.
• The politics of slavery of racialized power relation were such the slaves were denied their right to gaze

Overlooked No More: Ana Mendieta, a Cuban Artist Who Pushed Boundaries

• She urged viewers to disregard their gender, race or other defining societal factors and instead connect with the humanity they share with others
• Although the culture in which I live is part of me, my roots and cultural identity are a result of my Cuban heritage

 

The Photographed, Collaged, and Painted Muses of Mickalene Thomas

• By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty and background, I’m working to diversify the representations of black women in art. 

• By selecting women of color, I am quite literally raising their visibility and inserting their presence into the conversation

 

WAYS OF SEEING 

• When the tradition of painting became more secular, other themes also offered the opportunity of painting nudes. 
• You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, you put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting Vanity, thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.