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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.”
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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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