Friday, February 11, 2011

 
The Woman of Algiers
Marlene Dumas born in 1953 in Cape Town, South Africa. A female artist whom focuses her artwork on the way society and politics depicts womes, children, and people of color. For example, scrolling through the website this image caught my attention. Seeing this image and reading about the works of Marlene Dumas everything became much more clear to me. Another example includes how as I look up artworks done by Marlene I see that post of her work is done based on women, children and people of race and I see the importance of her message being heard as a woman herself. Lastly, this image caught my attention as it is a woman whom seems to be taken by the hands of what can possibly be two men. Not only is she taken by hand but she is naked and the censor bars covering her up.As a girl I see the way that woman are portayed and it's different world wide not only involving women. Overall image caught my attention but the curiousity of what message it is trying to convey drove me to find more about this artist and her work.