A great day out its so nice to relax now the exhibition worries are over. It's refreshing space and time to pause and think about what has been achieved so far. That is while viewing some amazing works in some of the most prestigious galleries in the country like, Marlene Dumas in the Tate Modern. (To see more in depth detail about the trip please go my exhibitions page.)
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Almost every day I will see myself in a mirror. And every time I do this, I see the person I have grown up with. Having said this I never noticed drastic changes in my appearance, the only times I see these changes are when I see myself in photographs from times gone by. Leading me on to my self portrait; exposing myself to be captured for one moment in time. Opening myself up to criticism and objectification with no extroverted, overbearing, opinionated voice to hide behind.
I tried to look into influences from my life that may have unconsciously formed the sort of man I am and others around me are. While I was looking it was amazing to see how these social constructs appear to start from as soon as you are born. And I was most shocked by the lyricist some Disney songs describing what it takes to be a man almost providing children with an inferiority complex as the characters they describe are almost impossible to match up to. They also very much teach a young boy like religion of his dominance over women, and enforce a subservient woman to be the object of a man.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man and Michelangelo's David Both historic, meteoric figures of the art world from the Italian Renaissance have separately been fascinated by male perfection. They both tackled it in there own individual ways da Vinci to draw, Michelangelo to sculpt. But, both depict a man they believe to be in his prime. I only ask how does an average man measure up to these giants of perfection. An yes these men were representing perfection hundreds of years ago. So how is the contemporary male different does he still need everything that the men of the past needed.
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Richard CassidyEmerging artist from Derby, England. Currently a student at Sheffield Hallam University. Archives
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