Exam

These pieces were to further my exploration of the 'Guerrilla Girls' and the importance of their movement. I picked recognised paintings by famous male artists and modified them to include the head of a Gorilla. I did this by, first drawing the Gorilla and then photocopying it onto the image. 

Theses was my own versions of the 'Guerrilla Girls' campaign - 'Do Women STILL Have to be Naked to Get Into the Met. Museum?' where they placed gorilla masks on top of famous nude paintings. 

However I didn't just decide to pick pictures of nude women, I also looked into one version of Andy Warhol's piece 'Marilyn Diptych'. Warhol repeatedly commented on society's infatuation with fame and celebrities in his works. This analysis of the media and the impact it had on women was something I felt was important to display. 

I added gold frames to both these pieces as gold has connotations of prestige and excellence; something I believe the Guerrilla Girls have achieved and I personally wanted to celebrate that. However the frame was also added to indicate the urgency of increasing women's representation in galleries and the art world. Each gender deserves equal representation however in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as shown by the Guerrilla Girls 2012 poster, less than 5% of the artists in the Modern Art Section are women but 85% of the nudes are female.