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Watch Jeff Wall
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Picture for Women 1979 by Jeff Wall
Picture for Women was inspired by Edouard Manet's masterpiece A Bar at the Folies-Bergères (1881–82). In Manet's painting, a barmaid gazes out of frame, observed by a shadowy male figure. The whole scene appears to be reflected in the mirror behind the bar, creating a complex web of viewpoints. Wall borrows the internal structure of the painting, and motifs such as the light bulbs that give it spatial depth. The figures are similarly reflected in a mirror, and the woman has the absorbed gaze and posture of Manet's barmaid, while the man is the artist himself. Though issues of the male gaze, particularly the power relationship between male artist and female model, and the viewer's role as onlooker, are implicit in Manet's painting, Wall updates the theme by positioning the camera at the centre of the work, so that it captures the act of making the image (the scene reflected in the mirror) and, at the same time, looks straight out at us.
9/17
Workday
Assign: Upload to your blog: artist statement, images of artist's work you are appropriating/re-creating, and your final version of recreated images
Next Thursday, 24th is the crit for re-create project1
Make sure you follow the guideline. Re-Create: Project 1
9/17
Workday
Assign: Upload to your blog: artist statement, images of artist's work you are appropriating/re-creating, and your final version of recreated images
Next Thursday, 24th is the crit for re-create project1
Make sure you follow the guideline. Re-Create: Project 1
