Stereotypes In Art Analysis

Featured and organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Romare Bearden’s collection is one that appreciates and depicts life for what it really is. Bearden did not like abstract expressionism. Instead, he made many collages depicting life with different perspectives, allowing the viewer to see reality, but also try to figure out the true meaning that Bearden meant to portray in the collage that was not directly seen by just looking at the picture. These collages were made by “Cut and pasted printed, colored and metallic papers, photostats, pencil, ink marker, gouache, watercolor, and pen and ink on Masonite” (MET Museum). Bearden liked telling narratives within these collages involving Harlem life. Whether it was on the streets, inside

Yesterday, I was playing Xbox with my friend, Anja. On my left side stood my laptop connected to a small speaker. I put on a song on Spotify, and leant back to look at the TV-screen. We listened to some other songs, until my mother came home and I had to turn it off to ask her something. When I was done talking to her, I sat back in the couch without putting on the music again. After about five minutes, a song howled out of the speaker with no one around the laptop to put it on play. My friend and I looked around like Timon from the Lion King and we were freaked out by the situation. I told Anja about another time something like this happened, when I was home alone in my room to put some make-up on. I put a song on my stereo from my Spotify

The collage reflects the concept of intersectionality and my different core beliefs that have developed from my intersectionality. This collage has the things that are most important to me, things that have shaped me, and things that I identify with that that I find essential. Each person in this picture has influenced a very important identity in my life and make me who I am. The pictures without people reflect each reflect a value or an identity of mine.

ynn Peril’s, Pink Think is a book that examines the influences of the feminine ideal. Peril was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985. She writes, edits, publishes, and dissects popular culture, especially that concerning gender-related behavioral instructions. She starts off the essay with her thesis saying that the human female is bombarded with advice on how to wield those feminine craftiness. She starts the book with how young women were supposed to wear conservative dresses, and get boyfriends in hopes of those boyfriends to become their husbands and fathering their children so they may become what was perceived as victorious, a mother and housewife. These ideas and concepts fitted to the times that Peril mentions in her book. She founds this a very negative outlook on pink think and is trying to me, the reader to also look at the book as something negative and vile. Today, I believe that these stereotypes have indeed changed, and do not exist as much in the world we live in today. However, in today’s world new concepts and ideas have manifested in for young women in America.

A barrage of advertisements, photographs, videos, graphs, and graphic compositions meet our eyes every day. Some of these attempt to coax us to buy what is presented through them, while others are just presented to please us. Although, each of these images are presented for different reasons, they all have visual arguments they are trying to make. Most images have a composition that is specifically planned or captured to convey a specific message. Being in a class that teaches how to use images in a manner that conveys a message, and has emphasis on the composition of such images, I found some of the information very familiar. However, information that was new to me, was applying critical thinking to an image. Evaluating claims, breaking down

The picture I chose to analyze is a genderbend of the characters Junkrat and Roadhog from a popular game, Overwatch created by “Mist XG.” This example of genderbend in my opinion was executed poorly, especially when comparing it to the original character designs. Both Junkrat and Roadhog are extremely sexualized, and are not wearing bras or any support for their chests other than straps. The worst of all is probably Roadhog’s depiction, as he is an overweight character, yet the artist chose to slim him down considerably in this genderbend, purely to fit the female Roadhog into the stereotype that only thin women are sexy. Roadhog in the game is a tank, and generally depicted as a very strong character, going so far as to hooking characters.

In “The Socio-Aesthetics of Pink,” Elizabeth Camp shares with us her two year old daughter’s love for everything pink. The article goes between talking about Camp’s and society's opinion on the color, and analyzing how significant it is for girls to like pink. People put too much meaning behind color, associating it with gender, and not only for girls but for boys too. There’s no need to put your child’s identity behind something so meaningless. It does not matter if your son likes pink or if your daughter likes blue.

The exhibit was grouped into four sections each section had a main item or multiple main items that the artwork was made up of. In the first exhibit the collages were split into two sides one side had fabric made collages the other side was more of found things put together to create one big college. While the untitled works are just items clustered together to create a college of sorts. It's hard to say what he means by the

The collage titled, “Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?” shows a parlor or living room. In the center of the room the viewer will find the body builder Irvin "Zabo" Koszewski holding an oversized Tootsie-Pop. Siting to the left side of the piece, one will fine the artist Jo Baer sitting on a sofa, nude. In addition, the collage contains a staircase with a women vacuuming and an arrow with text. A window that reveals a picture of broadways. A lamp shade with a Ford logo, a framed picture of the cover of “Young Romance”, a Stromberg-Carlson TV, a tape recorder on the floor, an image of the earth on the ceiling, a rug, and a canned ham on the coffee table (Stonard, 612-620). The collage was created in 1956 for

I have been stereotyped many times in the past but one of the most distinct stereotyping that was done to me was by a stranger while I was at work. I work at Discount Drug Mart, where I am required to wear a name tag with my first name and last initial on it. While I was ringing a customer out, the man asked me what my last name was. I told the man my last name, only for him to reply with “Oh your last name is McKenna? You’ve got to be Irish. You’re gonna be an alcoholic in the future”. I was stunned by his response and left speechless. This complete stranger had made a bold accusation about my own future solely based on my last name and ethnicity.

More importantly, people should not be limited by stereotype imagine because creativity will benefit the whole society, just like the iPhone. Education is necessary but not everything in human’s life. It is helpful to learn skills and knowledge in colleges, at the same time, students need to explore those skills into the real life. Epstein gives people a good angel to consider students’ college life and also the future life. It is important to carry those ideas and avoid to limit ourselves.

Teachers in today’s multicultural classroom need to use diverse class materials so they can engage their students with relevant material. Therefore, it is important educators guarantee the materials they provide are culturally unbiased. As an educator, I review all material I use in my classroom and ensure I only use culturally relevant materials in my lessons. After reviewing the Oxford picture Dictionary by Norma Sharpio and Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, I decided not use it in my class. The Oxford Picture Dictionary is from the Navitas English as a second language library collection. The book describes English vocabulary and American culture using pictures and Arabic subtexts. Evaluated the text using a personnel rubric. The rubric is designed

Dale Kennington’s unique artwork presents a realist view which encourages the viewers to examine her art that illustrates “everyday” occurrences in a new and distinct way. In her oil on canvas piece, Mothers’ Day, 1996, Kennington displays numerous young girls clothed in extravagant, decorative dresses in a nondescript waiting room; many accompanied by what seems to be their mothers. Each dress is depicted with vivid, saturated color for implied emphasis. The adult women, assumed mothers by the title of the piece, are primping their daughters for what seems to be a pageant show of some sort by the identification number visible on the dress of one girl. Light and bouncy curls accentuate the young girls’ faces as they prepare for the show. Light from an unseen overhead light creates a spotlight on most of the girls, casting shadows across the room’s floor. In this scene, the mothers seem to be actively preparing their daughters whereas most of the girls appear to be unbothered and patiently waiting for what is to come next. This piece is quite large, 10 by 6 feet, which allows for the audience to feel as if they were standing in the painting; this emphasizes the realism of the piece. Kennington’s use of realism allows for this scene to be represented candidly, and without artificiality and she achieves this by using formal components that challenge the audience to rethink their predetermined notions of any particular event, such as this one.

There are many ways that people are different from each other. People can look different, come from different places, born at different times, and live different ways. It is important that we take these characteristic into mind when we meet new people, but we should never rely on stereotypes. While some people may share some traits with a stereotype of a group they belong to, many do not. Stereotypes are very damaging to everyone. It teaches children things that are not true. Many people are misjudged often because of stereotypes. One of the ways these generalizations harms groups, is that it makes some people feel a need to separate themselves from things that the may share with a stereotype, so that they are viewed more individuality. While everyone is different in many ways, we all share things in common.

Do we suffer from having stereotypes about and against us? Of course, we’ve all had those experiences where we were held up to a certain standard based on our culture and race. It puts labels about how a person should act or live according to their sex, race, personality, and other factors. This could influence individuals who like different things or do different activities, but feel ashamed of doing so because of stereotypes. We should learn not to judge and perceive people because of what we think they should be like, and should change our point of view about the stereotypes that are in our society. In the end, self perception is the only thing that can make or break us.