I arranged to meet up with a couple of friends today, to discuss, artist statements, how our work was going on, to organise Nottingham trip on Thursday and raise any other general problems that we had. Most of my time was spent discussing my concepts around my work, and how to write a good artists statement to reflect my practice. Jointly we when through our notes on a lecture by Yuen to build a good structure and basis for my statement which will be really important for the handing in a couple of weeks. |
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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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