I think they've become a lot more about the inside of oneself like how you are
psychologically because in the past it was very much a way of showing your status you
know like rich people would have their portraits painted as not who they were but how they should
be what makes them who they are they'd bejewel themselves but now it's more vulnerable in a
way because it's completely about the psyche of the artist and what they think and it's more of
them projecting onto other people than other people directly onto them there weren't any
picture so you had to like pay someone to get a really good painting of you and it wasn't going
to be accurate because you wanted it to be who you wanted to be but these days I suppose
there's less rules and constriction so you can kind of draw anything and be like this is how
I feel we can just take a picture of your like this is me and it's more free how to represent
yourself these days I feel like when you look at Tracey Emin and things like that it's very
charged just very personal it's very shocking it's also about taking the kind of things that
are hidden maybe they're ugly maybe they're sad and putting them out there whereas before it
was very much about you know representing maybe an important figure and maybe making them look
better now it's about bringing in the things that you don't see and just throwing it out
women have always been making art you know whether it was sewing the clothes of their
kids or weaving is a huge movement of women artists Frida Kahlo Tracey Emin all really
inspirational and Frida Kahlo I suppose does do self portraits and has a rather amazing
she really shows how and her relationship with men supposed two men showing their relationship
with women but I feel like it hasn't actually altered the way that women are depicted in arts
as objects when while men still are depicted as powerful but when you put females into it
they know how they want to be it's more liberating that they can not objectify
themselves and just be who they want to be art is the space where women have always tried or
done something different with their identity if we continue pushing those boundaries in
acknowledging the variety and women's art because it shouldn't be a different categories just the
same as men's art so it's more about liberating woman in the sense that we recognize them when
they're successful that we support them when their art is you know worthy of being supported
subliminally we're always told to see people certain ways like through advertising I think
it's very strong like even the tiniest thing like what the woman is doing in an advert what the man
is doing even if it has no actual significance it will still just will get used to seeing that
and make us see people in certain ways I suppose that's the point about that you meant to see what
the artist wants you to see because the artist is making the painting doing it in a way for
themselves it's not completely for the audience that's probably a good thing and you can also
someone's perception of someone when girls grow up they kind of experience these small signals
for example mouse he did some research and body techniques which is basically if you're
from one culture you learn to walk one way and then another you learn to walk a different way
and it's something really minimal and it's the same thing with girls and boys girls have you
know for example you learn you have to sit like this whereas men you know so there's
these small things that you don't really notice but society kind of teaches I think that society
effects girls and shapes girls when for the first time you're told you can't play with
the boys or that you're not capable of playing video games take other people into consideration
and it's this constant kind of like I'm second to whatever else is happening around me I have
the power to change the media I worked stop the damaging stereotypes because it damages everyone
because they feel like they can't fit into the stereotype they feel out of the norm and they
just don't feel good enough and obviously that's not the case for everyone because you might want
to aspire to be something there was difference to an aspiring and there's no feeling not good enough
nowadays sharing images of ourselves have become a very common thing with the whole way of being
able to take photos of yourself very easily and share them to everyone all the time I suppose
it so they can project an image of themselves so that people respond to them in the way that
the person projecting the image wants them to if they show who they are or who they want people
to think they are then other people respond to them in the way that they feel like they should
for that person I do feel there is a quite big degree of vanity in it but I don't think that's
a bad thing is if you feel good that day if you feel powerful it's quite a nice thing saying hey
look at me I look nice today I'm going to show the world when we represent ourselves
in technology through digital media and stuff like that there's kind of this conglomeration
of identities that you kind of like fall into so I think on one sense you're kind of looking
for recognition and to be a part of something but on the other hand you're alienating yourself from
yourself you have this kind of digital space where you recognize yourself over and over
they're all a part of you but they're all kind of different so it's I think it's also just about the
way that we live now and the technologies that we have and about existing on the web having
a presence it's hard to know where the actual physical difference between men and women end
and when it becomes a society thing that it's hard to know if it ever will furnish ruling
families and kind of encourages that you should love yourself and shouldn't conform to these
stereotypes and images and if feminism does what it sets out to do then hopefully like I'm change
you