Karyn Kusama

follows, it will consider Girlfight and Dance, Girl, Dance to analyze how two separate female filmmakers, Karyn Kusama and Dorothy Arzner respectfully, challenge the theory of the male gaze, along with comparing and contrasting the methods in which such challenges were made, and finally it will address how any filmmaker may object the male gaze. Within the film Girlfight, director Karyn Kusama presents the audience with a strong female protagonist. Actor Michelle Rodriguez debuts her career portraying

Some of the most renowned artists use their work to express key aspects of their ‘lives’; many use personal affairs as motivation to create some of their most new and most greatest works. It can be assumed that artist’s with mental illnesses ‘have no choice but to express their lives’; using art as their escape. Which makes me question what was their state of mind and motivation in the creation of some of their famous works, for example Van Gogh’s ‘Starry Night’. The expressive work of Van Gogh

2004. These paintings show a variety of mediums all produced by the 87 year old dotted Japanese artist. Renowned for using repetitive motifs of dotted organisms within her new range of work we could gain a new viewpoint of her eccentric art. Yayoi Kusama: Prints is a vibrant and breathtaking exhibition it is highly recommended for everyone, especially those who had an admiration for her works, Japanese culture, and prints. Within this small gallery space, Kusama’s legacy and passion could be seen

Elsa Vallejo Professor Ming. Arth1. 04/18/17 Vallejo 1. Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist and a writer, she’s known for her Paintings, drawings, sculptures, installation arts, performance arts, films, fictions, fashions, and writing. Where her work has a touch of pop art, minimalist and feminist art movements. She got her big break in 1965 when she did the Infinity Mirror Room—Phalli’s Field. Using mirrors, her work is portrayed by dot motifs as well the infinity nets. She revolutionized

Arts Appreciation 1301 Chapter 1 Quiz 1. Chapter One opens by describing the work of artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Gunpowder is an unusual material to draw with and the sky is an unusual surface to draw on! What reasons does the artist give for using gunpowder as his drawing material? Cai Guo-Qiang wished to create beauty from something like gunpowder, which is originally considered a force of destruction. 2. On page 3, the author (Sayre p.3) states: “Appreciating art is never just a question of accepting

Medical Ethics Final Essay Salem Mojadidi CSU Eastbay Professor Smith HSC 3720 November 21, 2014 The day I woke up and realized that my cousins were randomly sleeping on my bedroom floor knew there was something wrong; I was right. In the summer of 2005 my aunt was diagnosed with breast cancer and the doctor said that there was a 50/50 chance that she would live since it was in an advanced stage of cancer. My aunt

This semester my art practice has primarily focused on utilising carefully constructed language as opposed to previous stream-of-consciousness techniques, while further investigating participatory projects, and assemblage as a new form of installation. The importance of memory and the handwritten repeatedly warranted further consideration during the course of the semester and became a fundamental element in each work. Conceptually, my practice has evolved into a critique of diaristic language by

How does audience driven performance art differ from other forms of performance art? Introduction: In recent years, a form of performance which relies as much on the audience as it does an artist has be growing increasingly popular among those who appreciate the meta. There is a sort of curiosity associated with participating in art and the creation of art which is refreshingly different from what is often found in performance. In this paper, I will focus on the audience and their role in watching

attracted to Yayoi Kusama’s work when I came upon a 1966 photograph of Kusama modeling on her own installation with painted dots covering her body. The photograph communicated what seemed to be a special message that fascinated me; I was curious about what symbolism the polka dots express and what connotations Kusama was intending to reveal by painting repetitive tessellations. I was instantly drawn to the manner in which Kusama dresses in the fashion of her own endless imagination; it seemed that

Images of Women in Sports Over the years the perception of women in sport has changed considerably. In this course we have viewed several films all dealing with the depiction of female athletes in an attempt to gauge society's current perception of women in sport. I will briefly summarize each film and the main themes of the films before providing a description of the female athlete which I will infer from commonalities between the films. The first film we watched was a documentary entitled