Blog Assignment 4-Respond Gaze

When talking about gaze, I think it's something can be explained as an action expresses a psychological power relationship between gazed and gazer. No matter male, female or homo, people are always gaze from recorded photographies, images, painting or something else and some sort of photographies and artworks are repersent naked lady. And these works give gazer a voyeuristic dimension and male group are always the gazer, female group and their bodies are gazed. Viewer should looking at the relationship of the objects appear in a work. Below there is a example about explaination of the relationship between gazed and gazer.

From the art photography Vanessa Beecroft, VB 50, by photographer and designer Vanessa Beecroft. We can see lots of black, yellow and white skin naked women are standing on the ground with black boots, red wigs. And with the white interesting desgined building, this picture looks like a tableau and it's reminiscent of multicolored culture and societies. This is not just a naked women photography, however, the women's act of exhibiting has a power of letting gazer to reduce a naked woman to a object and increasing voyeuristic watching to secondary thing. For Vanessa Beecroft, those girls are materials, are a part of her visual components to organize her own visual language. Viewers will pay more attention on the women's height, dimensions, types, colors, even their emotion instead of just browsing on surface of the image. So, the power of the image represents which can inspire gazer is the culture and stories behind the naked bodies. To gaze is to analyse the visual component, color and materials artists use and consider the background of naked bodies.

I researched more information about Beecroft, and what interests me most is her performance art. The majority of Vanessa Beecroft's performances arts are all quite similar. Especially on the creative form and construction. The main materials she use in her art are normally heels, wigs or some other live figure. The models are always naked standing on the ground without any emotion(for Beecroft, those models are also the part of her materials to accomplish her performance art). From the Internet, Beecroft's performance has be describe as art, fashion, brilliant, evocative, provocative, disturbing, sexist, and I am really agree with these description. Beecroft usually bring us lots of girls without too many clothes or just naked girls on high black heels and dressing red, yellow black wigs. Every time I watch Beecroft's performance art and her photograpies from the Internet, those girls always try to find their own position with no talk or noise, and then standing in front of viewers completely. In these works, models wearing same dressing or just naked, and they have same face-painting. The girls in her artworks has no different characteristics any more. All these information these artworks present have changed my way of how I thought about nudity, and also I think this is not just some kind of naked girl pictures for male viewers to see.However, in Beecroft's works, nudity is a form of clothing. The particular hair color, the powerful heels girls on or shade of pantyhose, all these elements represent the illusion of integrate atmosphere.