In this piece, the female body is used simply as an object. The female body in this instance has no will other than the artist's. Some may say this type of objectification of the female is negative, but I see it as the male appreciating the female form and wanting to collaborate with it. It is the male mind in correlation with the female body. If the artist was a female rather than a male, the perspective may have been different, but the idea of using the body as the medium would have been the same.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
The Female Body
Yves Klein created a performance piece in the sixties entitled "Anthropometries", or "Visual Measurements of the Human Body" in which he used the female body as the paintbrush.
In this piece, the female body is used simply as an object. The female body in this instance has no will other than the artist's. Some may say this type of objectification of the female is negative, but I see it as the male appreciating the female form and wanting to collaborate with it. It is the male mind in correlation with the female body. If the artist was a female rather than a male, the perspective may have been different, but the idea of using the body as the medium would have been the same.
In this piece, the female body is used simply as an object. The female body in this instance has no will other than the artist's. Some may say this type of objectification of the female is negative, but I see it as the male appreciating the female form and wanting to collaborate with it. It is the male mind in correlation with the female body. If the artist was a female rather than a male, the perspective may have been different, but the idea of using the body as the medium would have been the same.
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