To increase the fluency of my art work I decided to incorporate some of the skills I had learnt from previous projects into some of my prep. Here I use oil paints to do a direct copy of 'Puberty' by Edvard Munch. My exploration of him in my personal study prompted me to use him as he did very emotional nude paintings/drawings. This particular image is one I am very interested in, not only because it is such a powerful image but because there is strong debate on what the shadow represents. One argument is that is represents 'looming male genitalia' and the thought of male genitalia to a young woman during this time of her own rapidly changing body creates a stench of tension within the piece. Although I thought this was a very interesting outlook I decided to modernise my approach. For example I looked into the influence of today's media on young women in particular, the Sun. The shadow cast is a collage of the Sun's Page 3 as I feel the constant imagery of the 'perfect woman' in today's media is repressive and can lead to many insecurities.
However I also included the Gorilla head as it shows how my challenge to these images and my attitude towards feminism protects me from the shallowness of today's media.
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