This video about 500 years of women in art is gorgeous. You won’t regret watching it. Now I just wish there was a similar vid about 500 years of female artists.
hmm. the words that popped into my mind were more along the lines of bizarre and slightly creepy rather than gorgeous. :) but it does breeze by some truly gorgeous artwork.
That was cool! I thought it was interesting how the early pictures were all looking into the distance, and then it transitioned into women painted so that they were looking straight at me.
I’d love to see a similar one devoted to the portrayal of women in the media (i.e., photography and film) from the early 1900s on.
I wasn’t creeped out. The morphing created a visual connection between the portraits that I thought was revealing–perhaps more so than just flipping through them. But my biggest impression was one of overwhelming whiteness.
well it was almost exclusively western art, so i suppose the whiteness is not too surprising. especially since more contemporary art, which would be concurrent with growing awareness and value of diversity in western nations, tends to be less representational than earlier artistic movements.
it would be interesting to see a more truly global compilation of women in art.
and as to the creepy-ness. that’s only partially due to the morphing as morphing. for me, it was also due to the feeling that all of the women in these many pieces of art (not to mention all the many other women in art not included) somehow got forced into one. the woman of art. which is troubling to me as a version of reducing all women into one representative woman. this is something that we generally do not do with men, but often do with minority groups, whether women or racial/ethnic minorities. it’s a powerful and too often innocuous form of opression.
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hmm. the words that popped into my mind were more along the lines of bizarre and slightly creepy rather than gorgeous. :) but it does breeze by some truly gorgeous artwork.
That was cool! I thought it was interesting how the early pictures were all looking into the distance, and then it transitioned into women painted so that they were looking straight at me.
I’d love to see a similar one devoted to the portrayal of women in the media (i.e., photography and film) from the early 1900s on.
The art is gorgeous. The effect of the video was to creep me out.
I wasn’t creeped out. The morphing created a visual connection between the portraits that I thought was revealing–perhaps more so than just flipping through them. But my biggest impression was one of overwhelming whiteness.
well it was almost exclusively western art, so i suppose the whiteness is not too surprising. especially since more contemporary art, which would be concurrent with growing awareness and value of diversity in western nations, tends to be less representational than earlier artistic movements.
it would be interesting to see a more truly global compilation of women in art.
and as to the creepy-ness. that’s only partially due to the morphing as morphing. for me, it was also due to the feeling that all of the women in these many pieces of art (not to mention all the many other women in art not included) somehow got forced into one. the woman of art. which is troubling to me as a version of reducing all women into one representative woman. this is something that we generally do not do with men, but often do with minority groups, whether women or racial/ethnic minorities. it’s a powerful and too often innocuous form of opression.