Cui Xiuwen-Cindy Sherman-Frida Kahlo

Despite their differences, Cui Xiuwem , Cindy Shirman, and Frida Kahlo share something in common which is the portrayal of womanhood. In many of Cui’s work, she is known to incorporate issues and struggles woman encounter. Cui work with photography, oil painting, and, vetoes. Her series of pictures portraying a young pregnant Asian woman in her white maternity make me wonder the kind of pain she is enduring. The blue sky and white maternity proclaims an Isolation but yet a peaceful environment or atmosphere.
Cindy Sherman in a different light shows what a perfect woman should look like and dress like in this society. But she does this in a more sexual way. Also, just like that of Cui, Cindy’s work has a sentiment of loneliness but with a strong facial expression. Unlike the others, Sherman’s photos are in black and white but the concept behind the photo remains the same; stereotypes of women.
Frida Kahlo’s paintings are simply beautiful but disturbing to me despite their feminine interpretations behind them. Without knowing her background, a viewer will completely loss the concept behind her painting . Fridas facial expression remains the same in many of her paintings but unlike the others, each of her work is based on her pass experience.

Proj 1 Photo Alteration

Pictures for Project 1

Cindy Sherman

In all of Cindy's photographs, the idea of how a woman is expected to look is been portrayed. There is a picture of a women wearing an apron which directly draws my mind to what had been socially constructed to be so-called duties of a woman and in this scene the she looks like she is in the kitchen.

Jeff Wall

As a viewer, I feel like Jeff Wall's work is mostly what he imagines. For example in the picture labeled "Dead troops Talk", we know that there is no way the dead can talk but in this picture although we can see that the troops are dead, it looks as if they are really communicating.Also I will like to know the concept behind his work and what actually made him take such pictures.

Teun Hocks

I find Teuns work somewhat funny but at the same time disturbing just like that of Gregory. Teun puts himself in each of his work which also forces the viewer to put themselves in his shoes. In one of his paintings, he is shown standing on a chair with his head in a photo frame. This picture to me simply tell us that he puts himself in his work. Teuns work speaks about him as a independent man.

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory's pictures can be looked at and analyzed in different ways depending on the mood of who is looking at the picture. As i went through his pictures, his use of lightening stood out to me . I noticed that although he utilized natural lightening, where there is not a ray of natural lightening, he replaces it with a form of lightening be it a car light or candles. Also i notice a scene of depresion his most of his pictures. Most of them involve a person standing in aopen place which to me represents loneliness.

A Retrospective

Wendell Brook was a art professor here at TCNJ and retired about a year ago. I first came in contact with Mr. Brooks work at the schools exhibition and from that point i developed a great interest in his work and I try to incorporate his unique style in a couple of my art word. One thing that stands out in his work is movement. As you can see in this picture, everything has a form of movement to it and he also uses the method of hierarchical scale to make the important figure stand out and in this particular work, the important figure is the siluete of the woman dancing. Apart from the woman dancing, he incorporates movement by the orientations and scales of the silhouettes .

About Me

Whats Up, my name is Alfred a junior here at TCNJ majoring in Graphic designing.