Especially since I’m a man and I’m an artist, to make art about women is
basically to objectify them. Years ago,
a student asked me why don’t you paint women more, and I replying to her that
the reason is it makes me feel a little bit like I’m participating in some kind
chauvinist agenda especially when it comes to art history there is even a term
for art that’s me to please the male point of view, “the male gaze.”
Nevertheless, almost all art is about objectification. When
talking about his artists are by their very nature making images of beautiful
things that people should find beautiful. I certainly do this in almost all my
paintings of men but with women unless, will about it. I’ve been trying to work
this out because I realize that a lot of women, like a lot of men, like to be
looked at and consider their physical presence a sort of work of art. So when I
make art about women, and portraying women, I try to make them look a little
bit stronger and make it a little bit more about their personality rather than
just their physical beauty as would appeal to a straight man perhaps or an
immature point of view of the female in the female form. A lot of the images
that I get of women are often from blogs that are run by lesbians who have a
slightly different aesthetic than straight men do. I hope that this comes out
in my paintings.
Especially since I’m a man and I’m an artist, to make art about women is
basically to objectify them. Years ago,
a student asked me why don’t you paint women more, and I replying to her that
the reason is it makes me feel a little bit like I’m participating in some kind
chauvinist agenda especially when it comes to art history there is even a term
for art that’s me to please the male point of view, “the male gaze.”
Nevertheless, almost all art is about objectification. When
talking about his artists are by their very nature making images of beautiful
things that people should find beautiful. I certainly do this in almost all my
paintings of men but with women unless, will about it. I’ve been trying to work
this out because I realize that a lot of women, like a lot of men, like to be
looked at and consider their physical presence a sort of work of art. So when I
make art about women, and portraying women, I try to make them look a little
bit stronger and make it a little bit more about their personality rather than
just their physical beauty as would appeal to a straight man perhaps or an
immature point of view of the female in the female form. A lot of the images
that I get of women are often from blogs that are run by lesbians who have a
slightly different aesthetic than straight men do. I hope that this comes out
in my paintings.
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