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| Veolla Swisa, Stranger, 2022 |
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“Become a character and then sort of think, well, gee, here I am as Lucille Ball. What do I do now? So, then it became sort of a thing and a little more like performance.” Cindy Sherman caught my attention when she said this in an interview because her dressing up was very common for her photography she would dress up as random people, I see it as how you would be in someone else’s life, in someone else's shoes, looking through the world in their eyes. I tried to recreate her portraying different people on the bus and named it stranger because at the end of the day we are all strangers to someone.
The Cindy Sherman Effect by Phoebe Hoban for Art News:
Quote: “The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of taking that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool.’”
Response: Cindy Sherman was ahead of her time when she started dressing up. She believed that the world at the time needed something more than what was being shown at the time. She believed that mainly paintings were done by males, and she would be the one to show the people about photography and get it out there for the world to see.
Quote: “Cindy is an incredibly influential figure. She fundamentally nailed it in terms of understanding the way images are constructed. Portraiture was never considered something conceptual in quite the way that she took it on.”
Response: Cindy Sherman is a trendsetter she influenced a lot of artists to investigate self-portraiture, not just painting self-portraitures. She is an artist way past her time, and she helped a lot of young artists now become influenced by her pieces.
New York Times | The Ugly Beauty of Cindy Sherman:
Quote: “Sherman herself is reluctant to discuss the meaning of her work; she is amused by the interpretive frenzy it provokes. “The fact of her silence is now almost part of Cindy’s canon,”
Response: Cindy Sherman doesn’t explain her work because she always wonders what other people think about her work and how they interpret it, and how they preserve what she is trying to say in her pieces. Her silence is a part of her mysterious artwork and how it should be viewed.
Quote: “The photographs are not self-portraits, nor do they depict her fantasies. She uses herself because it’s simpler, she says. She can push herself harder than any model, and she can avoid small talk.”
Response: In all of Cindy Sherman's photographs she has used herself, she has dressed herself up as a man, as a clown, or anything she wanted because it was easier to communicate with herself and to be able to work the long hours with herself and not have to give herself the breaks, she would have to give the models.
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