The Photographed, Collaged, and Painted Muses of
Mickalene Thomas
“Thomas is working in the midst of much crucial
discussion in the art world about underrepresentation and misrepresentation of
black bodies and female bodies in the western art canon and the contemporary
media.”
“By portraying real women with their own unique history, beauty and background, I’m working to diversify the representations of black women in art.”
John Berger, chapter 3
"and so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed with her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a women."
"the ideal spectator is always assumed to be male and the image of the woman is designed to flatter him."
we are living in a society that always materialize women, their bodies and even their presences. the world is always critiquing women by their appearance, looking, the way they speak or even their race. it's fine to give those things a credit but they are not supposed to be the primarily critic ever.
Women can do a lot more than just being a woman. They are as valuable as men can be. They are able and capable to do everything.
I took a selfie of my wife with the moustache, it is all about women value, it wouldn't matter if I had a moustache.
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