Nissy Amaya, Flowery, 2024
Ana Mendieta, Untitled, 1973
Source : Female Gaze : Art that Looks at What Women See
Quote : “A portrait does not have to be the image of an individuality, conceived as an island no one could access but the portraitist. A portrait can be the way to plunge into the sea of life.”
Response : This means that women can be the focus in the portrait and nobody else. The women thinks that she more important than the people or the background they have in the photograph.
Source : Ana Mendieta : Artist Who Pushed Boundaries
Quote : “The making of my ‘Silueta’ in nature keeps the transition between my homeland and my new home,” she once said. “It is a way of reclaiming my roots and becoming one with nature. Although the culture in which I live is part of me, my roots and cultural identity are a result of my Cuban heritage.”
Response : Ana Mendieta identity is based on her homeland. In her Cuban heritage she includes nature photograph because it's part of roots.
Source : John Berger : Ways of Seeing
Quote : ", By contrast, a women' presence expresses her own attitude to herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her. Her presence is manifest in her gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste - indeed there is nothing she can do which does not contribute to her presence. "
Response : Women appearance attract the men that looks at her. There are many different expressions that women can do to express her presence.
Quote : ", Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaged herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually."
Response : Even though her father passed away she continues on with her life. She was shown to defend herself in life because the only person she had was her father.
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