RAMBLINGS ON THE WORKS OF "OTHERS"

When reading into postmodern feminist art ( considered one of the "others" in the postmodern genre), I noticed a piece by Laurie Simmons called Red Library. what was interesting was that her expression of the rigidity of traditional female roles with the use of the Barbies with domesticated backdrops. What drew me to this particular one was the fact that in the movie The Omen the traditional couple ( and their demon son) move into their new house. There is a part in the movie where the wife opens the doors to a room for her husband and says, "this is for you, they call it a men's day room." I then laughed because it was a study with walls of books and a desk and I guess it wasn't though of then that that's where a woman might want to spend her day. In fact, I have always wanted a room like that. Anyway, the room in Red Library to me is a reminder of the "men's day room." Ive said before that I am no feminist but am highly aware of the struggles women went through and still go through. I usually don't place into my art but I do critique art different if there is a more feminist approach because I feel like I should since I am too are among women artists. Yet I also agree with Louis Bourgeois views one women artists and how she never really held them separate from men artist or felt stifled by men artists. Women and men are different and it shows in their art a lot of times and sometimes it doesn't yet I am not exactly sure if there is prejudice in the art world for women because I have never experienced it. As far as there being more female nudes than male that may because even though I am a woman I find it more comfortable to work with women nudes and I like draw them better because of the curves they offer. Being portrayed nude also has different meanings depending on when the work was done. In some periods it was a high honor and not everyone could be sculpted or painted nude.