Cindy Sherman Outline

 

Intro: Cindy Sherman is a photographer. She is mostly known for her influential photographs of women during her Untitled Film Stills Series, 1977-1980. In her work she identifies stereotypes about women in the media and tries to dismantle them.

 

Style: Contemporary Art, Socially Critical Photography

Themes: Coming of age, womanhood, rise of feminism, the American women's movement. Stereotypes of women in media, damsel in distress.

Influences: Feminism, stereotypes of women in media, images of women in films from 1950-60

Artworks: Untitled Film Still #13 - from the untitled film stills series

Untitled film still #21 - from the untitled film stills series

Untitled #92 - from the Disaster and fairy tale series

Untitled #16 - from the untitled film stills series

Untitled film still #33 - from the untitled film stills series

 

 

Works Cited

 

 

“Cindy Sherman Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works.”                                    The Art Story, www.m.theartstory.org/artist-sherman-cindy.htm.

“Cindy Sherman.” The Broad, www.thebroad.org/art/cindy-sherman.

“Cindy Sherman.” Art21, art21.org/artist/cindy-sherman/.

 

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Surrealism

Surrealism is a movement in visual arts and literature. It is based on portraying the unconscious mind in images using science or rationality. This movement began during the mid 1920s, to fight against World War I. It was a revolutionary force about the liberation of an individual. The root of the movement was to throw European consciousness out of balance. When artist tried to gain inspiration their process of getting it was very unexpected because to them it was about avoiding control. Sigmund Freud had a theory about ones mind, the conscious or unconscious part of our mind reserves certain events in our lives. The absence of memories deep within ones mind. Surrealism focuses on a slippery reality because it plays with it (reality) whilst giving the viewer a sense of fantasy. It's very bizarre, intentional, and hallucinatory. In the video, one of the examples given was Alice In Wonderland, which had many themes of surrealism in it. 

Surrealism is also connected to The Dada movement, Romantic period, and symbolism. These were the roots of surrealism, emotional expression, realism, and rejecting the social norm, and rationality. It was about not just sticking to one style of  art. Surrealism drew inspiration from non-Western art, it's origination was from a different variation of non-western art, which caused their use for artwork to bring about a more diverse outlook. This is also understandable as to why surrealist view their work as anti-imperialist and anti-colonial because it brought power to their movement.