The representation of the human body and art has been controversial since the introduction of performance art. Performance art constitutes as any activity presented in front of a live audience and incorporates music, dance, poetry, or theater. The art of using body as an art form came about in the 1960s, when artists had the desire to communicate directly to their audience through movement and form. Performance art created an emotional experience and interpretation that more conventional art, such as a painting or a sculpture, could not express. Performance art became more popular in the late 1960s, and was commonly referred as “actions,” emerging from the reinterpretation of “action painting,” where art focused on the body and where the …show more content…
For Yoko Ono, she expected to be given equal consideration as her partner, John Lennon. Ono used conceptual art and performance art. On performance she did was entitled Cut Piece, and was first performed in 1964. The piece, which consisted of Ono being the art form, was dressed and kneeling. With a pair of scissors, she would invite viewers to start cutting pieces of her clothes off, creating a performance piece, a “happening.” Ono’s performance confronted the issue of the female gender, becoming unconscious to the public ritual, and enabling vulnerability. Cut Piece creates an interpersonal relationship between the artist, the object, and the viewer. Near the end of the performance when the last piece of clothing is cut (which happens to be her bra strap), she begins to move, but holds herself to cover her breasts. The female form is directly addressed by Ono becoming the art piece, and becoming a sexual object. She does not speak throughout the performance, but near the end her emotions begin to change and can show that she becomes uncomfortable. During the 1960s, like fighting for equality and women’s rights, women were also fighting for the respect of their bodies. For Ono, Cut Piece can be seen as a way of possibly reclaiming and protecting the respect of her body, by exposing it to others to degrade by cutting off her
Art has been around for centuries, expressed in various ways through different mediums; painting, drawing, photography, music, and so many more. Each having smaller categories within them. One can create a portrait with different types of paint, chalk, pens and pencils, the lens of a camera. A musician can convey a feeling within lyrics, or notes of a song. Separate forms of art, yet if you look closely enough, you can see similarities as well.
Aileen Wuornos was born February 29, 1956 in Rochester, Michigan to Leo Dale Pittman and Diane Wuornos. Diane had abandoned her children and was never brought up in their household. Her father Leo went to prison before Aileen was born. Leo was a child molester and a psychopath who later hung himself while serving a life sentence in prison after his conviction of kidnaping and raping a seven year old girl. Growing up, Aileen lived with her brother and raised by their grandmother (Biography, 2015).
Deontae Morales P.8 2/15/18 Mae Jemison Mae Jemison an amazing astronaut born and raised In Decatur, Alabama was the first African-American to be admitted into the astronaut program that was one of her many other accomplishment Mae Jemison earned her M.D. in the university of California, Jemison also was the first African-American astronaut. Mae Jemison achieved a lot in her time from being the first African American astronaut to earning the title of science mission specialist. " on June 4,1987 Mae c. Jemison became the first African American woman to be admitted into NASA astronaut training program" https://www.biography.com/people/mae-c-jemison-9542378.
Do you know Los Angeles’ new mayor of 2022? Karen Bass is the first woman and the second African American to serve as mayor of LA. She works extremely hard to ensure that every homeless person is off of the streets living and in homes. After serving as a nurse and a Physician Assistant, she founded the Community Coalition to organize Black and Latino residents against substance abuse, poverty, and crime. She then moved on to represent Los Angeles in the State Assembly and was elected by her peers to serve as Speaker.
By doing this she is connecting with her audience, and bringing them together as women. She uses this to help the audience feel that they are needed on an individual level, and even though it will be hard women will always support each other. By reassuring women that “we’re going to work and fight for victory”, she is encouraging them to make sacrifices. This works together with her first rhetorical strategy by using them in the same sentence at times, such as “and I almost said ‘glamorous’ for us” This helps to deepen the connection between not just the women sitting in the live audience of the speech, but of all women who will need to make a sacrifice during the
Marian Anderson was a driven African American singer. "We don't take colored" (Collins 106). Marian was deprived of singing in many places because of the color of her skin. She was always well behaved and never wanted conflict so she never would argue.
You should always believe in yourself and never give up no matter what happens. Always be the leader and not the follower. Civil Rights activist, Diane Nash when she was a student she witnessed southern racial segregation for the first time in her life. Diane Nash helped me understand that we should become leaders for the black society.
A mother, a leader, a navigator, an interpreter, and a woman. Sacagawea did it all. She is one of the most important members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, providing not only guidance, but hope for the journey. Sacagawea has become one of the most well-regarded women in American history for her strength and wisdom. She led two explores across threatening territories all while being a mother to her new born child.
I am going to talk about a woman who made a great impact to the ones who did not believe in her from the beginning of her dreams. She made woman see different from the people who is chauvinist. Her name is Ellen Ochoa. She was born in 1958 in Los Angeles California. She considers her hometown La Mesa California.
The 1980s were a time when people were in their prime and changes were happening all around. Because of the creation of a new economic policy, supply-side economics, in the 1980s, the modern government’s involvement in the economy evolved into a mix between a free market system with government intervention and regulations that still exists today. Before the 1980s, the economic policy known as Keynesianism was the primary policy used by the government. It was created in the 1930s, by a man named John Maynard Keynes, during the Great Depression, which was a time when unemployment skyrocketed, and many people lost their homes, savings, and businesses. The economy needed major help and therefore the creation of Keynesianism, which advocated for active government intervention to stabilize the economy’s problems and help combat unemployment,
On April 8, 1993, Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman to go into space. Ellen Ochoa was born May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California. She calls La Mesa, California her hometown. She is the third of five children, three brothers and one sister. When she was in her teens her parents got a divorce.
Soon Michelle and Barack began dating as a couple. In February 1990, Obama was given a special honor. He was titled as the first African American editor of Harvard Law Review. Obama graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University in 1991. Obama, feeling well accomplished and motivated, returned to his city, Chicago.
The 1960’s was truly an age of reform and revolution that set the stage for Susan Sontag 's, “Notes on ‘Camp,’” published in 1964. The decade saw the emergence of large scale political campaigns aiming to increase opportunities for all people, such as the Civil Rights movement. Some reformers demanded social change and denounced capitalism in order to create a counterculture encouraging self-exploration and fulfillment, often involving sex positivity, drug use and communal living. To counter some of these liberal movements the modern conservative movement was born with the ideals later reflected in the Reagan era. Additionally, 1960’s America saw a the development of several new forms of art such as Op art (or Optical art), Pop art, Performance
It is a performance or happening, intertwined with dance, improvisation and conceptual art. The attitude towards the text changed greatly as today the core of the performance is body and autobiographical stories instead of sceneries from great classical writers. The subject of this essay is to define postmodern time and the relationship between art
Most art requires an audience, a fantastic performance but with no audience, does not bring about the message of the performance. The role of an audience is very prominent in the arts scene, be it being a spectator or a participant. However, audiences’ role in arts has significantly changed over the years. Audiences does not want to appreciate art just by viewing, they want to be involve in the process of art creation. Based on an article written by Ben Walmsley, Walmsley (2013) mentions that the trend now is that audience wants to “engage with the arts in a more participatory way”, so as to achieve a more immersive and fulfilling experience (p.1).