Amber Vittoria
Descriptive Analysis
The colours used in this particular piece of work are extremely minimal with only slight tonal variations of the one colour which makes the shape of the character's body almost blend into the background of the image which emphasises how Amber Vittoria is trying to break the boundaries of traditional/expected feminine appearance.
The piece doesn't seem to use any compositional elements as it is flat with only slight texture created using line. However, the white areas create focal points to the artwork which points out the elements of femininity of the character.
The message shown in this piece in particular is how the shape of a woman's body is irrelevant when it comes to the woman as a person. This is shown by how the colour of the character blends in with the background of the image to emphasise that it doesn't make a woman any less of a person if she doesn't fit to society's standard of beauty. The white elements of the image are simply point out the areas that show that the character is in fact a female.
Amber Vittoria begins by creating her work digitally to create the shapes which she then prints on a laser jet printer for texture and adds the other elements such as hair using brush pens. This is how the characters she creates have such elongated body parts which further breaks the standards of society.
Contextual Analysis
This is a recent piece created by Amber although a lot of her work is based around breaking the traditional standards of women's physical appearance.
She is an illustrator based in New York City where advertisements and media are constantly focused on looks making the opinion expressed in her work even stronger as she tries to convey her message to her audience.
The audience of her work are women who are also interested in breaking the rules of society and how women should look or think they should look. Feminists are a massive part of her audience as Amber herself has strong views on feminism which is seen clearly throughout her work as she focuses on feminine appearance.
Theoretical Analysis
Feminism is a clear factor throughout Amber Vittoria's work as she wants to break the normality of women changing/or having the desire to alter their bodies in some way to make it suit society's standards. Amber changes this by creating female characters using her method of production by placing the digital elements of the piece down first before giving the woman a figure which breaks traditional femininity.
Teresa Orazio
Descriptive Analysis
The colours used in this piece make the piece seem innocent because of the use of pastel shades that create the shapes. However, the black background darkens the initial thoughts on the piece.
Overlapping is used which gives the piece more composition. It is used to make shapes stand out from one another. The rounder shapes of the piece are not overlapped making them more frontal and noticeable to the viewer.
When first viewing the piece it may seem like it is rather abstract using shapes on a black background. Although, when you look at the piece in more detail you begin to notice characters with mysterious faces and bare bodies. Teresa has done this by using the pastel shades to create skin tone.
Teresa Orazio has been focusing on abstract shapes for about 5 years. This piece has been painted and then digitally edited by adding the pastel shades.
Contextual Analysis
This piece is from the Moonmambo series which focuses on elements of dance. This particular piece appears to be burlesque dancing because of the poses that the characters are in as well as the bare body parts in the image.
Moonmambo is an autobiographical series with the characters being based on Teresa herself. The series is influenced by dance. This means that there is no particular client for this piece as she has made it for herself and her mother.
The audience of the work are people who are interested in dance, in particularly burlesque style. Also people who take an interest in abstract style illustrations.
Theoretical Analysis
The image almost seems to look like a modernist piece of artwork because of the abstract shapes and colours that have been used. However, the piece has only been inspired by modernism.
The piece relates to feminism because of how the characters clearly have naked bodies but their faces have been covered by hood like shapes which relates to the objectification of women and how their faces are inferior to their bodies.
Jonny Negron
Descriptive Analysis
The colours used to create this piece are minimalistic but includes different tonal variations. The bold red tone is used to emphasise the fetish style that he focuses his work on as red tends to represent sex and love.
The character has larger elements in places that people tend to fantasise about such as breasts. hips and eyes.
Jonny Negron created this piece by creating an initial sketch and then painting over it using ink markers.
Contextual Analysis
The piece has been created for Jonny Negron's personal work rather than a client as he is interested in anime which is seen clearly throughout the work he makes for himself.
The audience of the piece are people who are interested in his work as well as people who are interested in different fetishism pieces such as more curvy female figures.
His work is female based throughout each piece as he knows that his audience will be more interested in seeing this as well as his own interests.
Theoretical Analysis
This piece focuses on feminism and the sexuality of women as Jonny Negron only draws women with emphasised elements that have been made bigger making it more appealing to the audience of his work. Women are constantly sexualised for their bodies which can clearly be displayed in this image.
Torches of Freedom
Descriptive Analysis
The colours used in this piece of propaganda make the image almost seem like a realistic photograph which would have been more appealing to the audience at the time when the piece was made.
The overall message of the piece is to promote the sale of cigarettes. Many brands of cigarettes made these propaganda signs at the time.
In the image the woman has been objectified to make smoking more appealing to men although smoking advertisements of that era focused more on making it more appealing to women.
The image seems to have been originally painted and then printed in mass amounts for newspapers and posters in the streets.
Contextual Analysis
The poster is from around the early 20th century when smoking became more and more of a fashion statement rather than a bad habit.
A lot of the propaganda posters were made across America to promote smoking to make sales of cigarettes rise.
The audience of this particular poster are young single males who want women to be attracted to them. The female character on the image looks like she suits the standards of beauty in society during that era making it more appealing for the young men.
Theoretical Analysis
Consumerism is a massive part of this piece because of the way it is promoting cigarettes to increase sales. Before this cigarettes were seen as a dirty, bad habit but as the brands became more aware of the sales rising so these adverts were made to promote the mass sale of cigarettes.
Roma Manikhin
Descriptive Analysis
This piece by Roma Manikhin is compositionally strong because of the use of overlapping and shadowed/highlighted areas that makes the viewer focus on the important elements in the image.
The message of the image is to recreate the traumas that Roma experienced when he joined the circus as a young boy as well as the desires of the contemporary man.
This piece has been painted using gouache which is clearly seen by the mark making and different tones seen throughout even the 'flat' surfaces of the image.
Contextual Analysis
Roma Manakhin is a Moscow based illustrator which is well known for its large circuses and performers. A lot of Roma's work is based around his career at the circus, in particular, this piece which focuses on the burlesque dancers.
The audience for this piece will be people who take a general interest in his work as well as people who enjoy the circus or burlesque.
Theoretical Analysis
The nature of this piece is to make a joke out of the 'contemporary men' that see the women in burlesque dancing as objects which relates the piece back to feminism. Burlesque is a form of stripping but with more of aCn art form to it.
Alice Wietzel
Descriptive Analysis
This piece contains a lot of composition elements such as overlapping which gives the piece more three dimension and making some of the information more frontal and important.
The piece is a risograph print using 5/6 colours on A3 sized. This is just one of many pages from a zine which consists of nude women with sunburn throughout.
Contextual Analysis
The audience of the piece are people who are interested in historic art as the piece has been inspired by renaissance style paintings.
Theoretical Analysis
This piece relates to feminism as it helps to change the way that people viewed women in art history. Women in paintings are no longer looking outside the painting at the spectator but rather looking at themselves, each other or away.
Francisco Goya
Descriptive Analysis
The message conveyed in this image is that the woman in the nude is showing herself off to the spectator.
The rule of thirds has been considered in the painting as the woman fits diagonally across the image covering most of the piece.
The background tones appear dark against her pale skin giving the painting a consideration for composition.
Contextual Analysis
Painted in 1797-1800.
Most well known for how she infamously gazes out of the painting at the spectator.
It was rumoured that the woman in the painting was the mistress of the painter which was painted not for the public, but a wealthy patron.
Theoretical Analysis
The painting relates to feminism because of how the woman has been painted specifically for the viewers pleasure.
Claudia Chanhoi
Descriptive Analysis
The colours in used across the whole image are minimal. The use of pink has connotations of femininity and flesh which can be seen in the piece.
The use of text on the products has a humorous yet serious approach towards the views of women in the media.
The message of the image is to represent how women are used to sell products.
It has been created using vectors which gives it the crisp effect using simple shapes.
Contextual Analysis
She began creating this type of work expressing this message in 2013 and still continues to create this work.
Claudia is from Hong Kong with a Catholic family so she was taught female sexuality is a sign of vulnerability.
The audience of the work is women who are interested in how women are used in media and have an interest in feminism.
Theoretical Analysis
The work of Claudia Chanhoi relates to feminism as a whole because of how she has a light hearted, yet serious message in her work about how women are objectified for means of consumerism. This is clearly seen in this image.
