Aliza Nisenbaum Jenna, Friday Night in Brooklyn, 2019.
She is portraying how she is the focus, and she is proud that she is the focus. Without being objective. Women shouldn't only be looked at as objects, but as Knowledgeable, most pictures of women that are photographed or painted by men are showing a woman as objects to the eye. Everyone perceives it differently. I perceive the image as power, a sense of Knowledge.
Mary Katayama
She is a Japanese artist who has a deformity of the bones that caused her leg to get amputated. She demonstrates beauty in physical imperfections and is not ashamed of portraying what she considers to be beautiful even if society, specifically men, disagrees. Her art is not for men to accept her beauty, but rather to express her love and comfort in her own body, regardless of society’s definition of beauty, and to tell her own personal story.
The women in the painting although at first hand seem to be appealing to the male gaze it is obvious she could not care any less. The painting shows the woman's gentle and compassionate side briefly but the longer you stare at the painting, you begin to notice that the woman seems overall uninterested in the spectator and her facial expression shows how she is not concerned about looking gentle or compassionate. The painting really shows the female gaze in an interesting way, it shows that women are able to not care about what others think (also shown by the people in the background) and how what they feel is the only thing that matters to them.
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