VISUAL CULTURE
Your Tasks In Ways of Seeing, Berger notes that “men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.” To examine this quote, select two works of art or advertising—one depicting a man,and one depicting a woman, from any period. A good place to start your search would be major museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The Louvre, The Art Institute of Chicago, or the Musée d’Orsay.In your ~500-word discussion post, indicate your chosen work by title, author and provide a URL. Then, answer the following questions, which aredivided into three parts, surrounding what is being examined:
●TheArt.
●How does the artist or creator depict each sex?
●Who has the power in the image, the subject, or the viewer?
●Does the subject appear empowered, or spied on?
●What social, historical or cultural ideologies are evident in this work?
●By answering these questions, are you performing a materialist critique? Why or why not?
●The Artist.
●Was the artist or creator male or female? Does that information change your reading of the image?
●Do you think the artist’s intentionality matters to your critique of the image? Why or why not?
●You,the Viewer.
●How do your pre-judgements about gender affect your own perceptions?
