Anatomy:
The study of the body and all
of it’s intricacies has been a scientific exploration for doctors as well as
artists. Leonardo da Vinci was one that took it seriously and carefully
dissected and then meticulously sketched his findings in his journals. This
study, along with math and other subjects became part of the curriculum for a
serious artist in the fifteenth century. Understanding how the body was built
and what made it move would be helpful for an artist to produce a realistic
life-like rendering.
When reading about the artist
Mona Hatuoum’s “corps etranger”, I had to look it up since it sounded so
strange, but then, Im not that surprised since it seems like each female
artist, from our readings, continues to push the boundaries further and
further. Im starting to feel like it is closely related to Punk Rock, which in
many cases, was a performance created to challenge and shock. I liked her piece
I found called Pull:
Here is a photo and the link.
In trying to better understand I liked the description below since it clearly
asks the question of how does the public invade our private space and vice
versa.
“In Pull The viewer was
invited to pull a hank of hair hanging down in a specially constructed niche
below a TV screen. When the hair was pulled, the artist’s face on the screen
registered a feeling of pain or discomfort. The hank of hair was in fact
attached to Hatoum despite the illusion of the TV screen above it. The TV
screen and the viewer acted as the public sphere and the artist’s face and body
physically behind the screen acted as the personal sphere. In this three day
performance Hatoum placed her actual face and body behind a TV screen rather
than making a recording representing it. This is in order to draw the
spectator’s attention to the private versus public dichotomy and to invite the
participating viewer to question the realm of the public and the private.” mireille.astore.id.au/Thinker/hatoum.html
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