Who wants to be part of the Guerrilla Girls Movement?
I decided to create a series of images originated from photographs that I took of my own. This series of images are called Painted Faces. Each image represent a different time period cover in each of the chapters of the Guerrilla Girls Book, The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to The History of Western Art, (1998). The images are in chronological order beginning with the ancient times, then The Middle Ages, The Renaissance, 17th and 18th Century, 19th Century, and finally the 20th century. Each of the facial expressions I made has a painting super imposed of a female artist created at each specific time period. Behind the paintings, there is different facial gestures I made to symbolized their anger, sadness, frustration, and impotence females artist went through out the history.
Throughout the class, getting to know more and more about the activist movements of the Guerrilla Girls against racism and sexism in the art world, politics, Hollywood and other women issues which turn into my inspiration of creating a movement where Painted Faces are going to be the center for a reaction, and awareness from people about the struggles marvelous female artists went through to make art, and been able to have a family and a career all together, or just as simply as to express their feelings and emotions through art. Sadly, I can said that gender has being an stigma in female lives, the reason why not only women artist but any other women in general including myself have been deprived for so many things that were believed to be only for men. According to the guerrillagirls.com, The Guerrilla Girls "still condemning the art world for its lack of ethics, tokenism and other bad behavior". This is a problem that doesn't only female artist need to address but all women in general whether the outrages frustration and anger comes from the corruption, injustice and other major problems from the art world but from any other places where women are seemed as an object for men pleasure or just incapable to deliver an excellent work, not to mention they are a bunch of other issues women faced all around the world, but we must said something such as creating a movement or supporting other groups such as the Guerrilla Girls who fighting for equality, sexual liberation and women's right. As a women and a feminist, I believe if we work together we can become stronger and our voice can be heard so changes could become possible. So, the social media site that I used to collaborate with the ideal of the Guerrilla Girls and reach out people awareness was YouTube. Hopefully, this video inspired people of all ages. Fortunately, I got to said with the beginning of the Feminist Art Movement in the 1970s up until today, the concentration in critical attention in the work of females has forced the public to accept women as professionals. However, women still not receiving equal pay for the same amount of work or even better. The Guerrilla Girls mentioned in their book that a single painter by Jasper Johns could it bought all the women paintings illustrate in the Guerrilla Girls' book.
The Guerrilla Girls' posters. These posters and many others can be download from the Guerrilla Girls' website and you are complete free to post them what ever you want.
Dearest Eli Broad action at LACMA, los Angeles,2008
Guerrilla Girls' 1986 Report Card
This is the link to my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd3GL_7HmPg
This is the link to my video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd3GL_7HmPg
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