IN RESPONSE Art, Entrepreneurship and Curatorial Program Harlem, NY Teaching Artist: Laura Schneider
Briana I Am Woman This piece is a reflection on Hank Willis Thomas’s art on how advertisements are used to play upon people’s stereotypes. My piece is called & I Am Woman because women are used in advertisements for their bodies to make a product look sexy so people want to purchase the item. The media is only interested in their bodies and not their brain or who they really are. Also, a woman’s body is stereotypically supposed to be a certain size. The media only portrays White women who are small and skinny as beautiful, but this is not true. I combined a White woman who is small and skinny with a Black woman who is thick and curvy. Their heads are combined and bigger than their bodies to take attention away from their bodies and place the attention onto their heads to show women are more than their bodies. Let’s instead think about women’s intelligence and what they have to say.
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