Theme: Gender (sex, androgyny, LGBTQX, oppression)
MOMA Learning on ‘Constructing Gender’
Gender identity evolving through art
Exploring & researching gender in famous works of art
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- A Bar at the Folies-Bergère – Édouard Manet
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- Self-Portrait with a Monkey (1938) – Frida Kahlo
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- Woman with a Parasol – Claude Monet
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- I Know… Brad – Roy Lichtenstein
Roy Lichtenstein’s lover talks about their relationship. “He wanted to make women cry”.
The New York Times “Roy Lichtenstein, a Painter Who Adored Women”
Exploring & researching gender in my own work
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- A 2016 skectchbook of mine focused on women
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- A page from the sketchbook
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- Another page from the sketchbook
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- A picture I took of my friend
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- Mind Map
Gender is a complex topic but society often flatten it to men and women. Many people then use their 2-d perception of gender to force other people into categories and label them. This happens even in groups that should know much better, like LGBT spaces.
The inspiration for my topic comes from my bi friend being told her sexuality is not valid, in part because she is feminine and society has this idea that feminine women are immediately straight and queer women have to be ‘tom-boyish’. As a queer woman, it’s an issue I take very seriously.
