# data[].attributes.body
When I viewed the “Woman In Front” Exhibition it led me to a piece by Edouard Manet, 'A amazona — Retrato de Marie Lefebure’, 1870-75. I was inspired by the blurred background and the woman as a subject, and considered the trope of male artists painting women. I wanted to contradict this, and make a similar painting through my own gaze of a woman. I also thought it would be interesting to view a powerful woman as a subject matter with a landscape that has no apparent horizon. In other classes in which I have been learning about the power of disorienting landscapes. Disorienting landscapes reflect my feelings towards the topic of male artists utilizing female bodies as subjects. Finally, I also liked the contrast of a female figure and animal life in the painting and chose to continue the theme in my own work with different models and poses. This painting was a powerful exercise in which I was able to think about how being a woman may make me paint differently, or how it would make others view my work.

# data[].attributes.body
The inspiration of these piece was from several portraits from the Women in Front exhibition with classic framing around it. I wanted this painting to serve as a "before" of the exhibition where many of the paintings by female artists weren't exhibited. When archived, paintings are usually covered and put into storage, so I wanted to introduce the covering of female portraiture by actually covering the female subject within the piece.

# data[].attributes.body
I chose this piece from the "Women in Front" Exhibition since I wanted to do a more people-centric piece for my painting. I had two main sketches before this: one with a woman sitting at a chair with a scowl and one with a skeleton in a general suit. However, I decided to choose this painting for multiple reasons. The first being that I wanted to draw multiple people instead of just one, as a way to challenge myself. Another reason is because the painting shows multiple expressions, each varying from one another, showing the diversity and range of each woman in the piece.

# data[].attributes.body
While I was researching the Women in Front show, I clicked through an online exhibit of the MASP’s 2015 collection, and there were 2 paintings, one after the other, that caught my eye: Manet’s “The Lion Hunter,” and one of Degas’s ballerina paintings. Mixed with the ever-present thought that there were so few women artists in this exhibition, I thought to myself, “wouldn’t it be funny if one of Degas’s ballerinas were The Hunter.” In art history, women are portrayed as objects to be looked at, and seldom are they figures of action. Additionally, Degas’s ballerinas in their time were so degraded and exploited, so it felt vindicating to place one in the position of power that Manet’s hunter occupied. It also fits neatly with the Women in Front exhibition’s theme of recognizing the women often overlooked in the art world.

# data[].attributes.body
I got the idea for this painting after looking at the "Women in Front" exhibition. After looking at the exhibition, I noticed so many depictions and illustrations of fabric since so many of the women in the paintings are shown to be wearing dresses and traditional feminine outfits. I also noticed in the exhibition how they are represented, and how their roles in society are represented. I wanted to address both these ideas in my painting and hopefully give women the inspiration to break out of the traditional stereotypes that were represented in many of the paintings in the "Women in Front" exhibition.

# data[].attributes.body
In many religions we hear of a sky father who watches down on all of us, and knows everything we know, but why a father. Many people see the earth as feminine since it gave birth to life and gives us a place to stay and live. I called this sky mother because we do not hear of this notion in any of the world religions. The assignment was going off of women in front, and I placed an angel in the middle of the painting falling down somewhere. The red is chaos and rage filled around her, but she is separate from that. The thunder represents the chaos going on in the background. The birds normally represent Hope and flying away. Flowers fly from here hand to symbolize the life she brings to places. She is separate from the background because she is art in herself.

# data[].attributes.body
The idea for this piece for me was about being uncomfortable. Looking at the injustices that women have to face by society, as seen in Lin Bo Bardo’s, Women in Front, can be very nerve racking. Men have been a problem for the advances of women in society, so it feels like we have an obligation to make amends. It becomes uncomfortable just trying to think of the unbelievable amount of problems that need to have amends made for. So this piece speaks to that idea in the sense that as a society we are in this time where we are grasping for the equality for all people and yet it is still uncomfortable to talk about because of the weight that it has looking to the past.

# data[].attributes.body
Inspired by the Women in Front exhibition, I decided to paint what is the socially the most prominent aspect of a women: the 🤬. While it is looked at as full of lust but also disgusting, it is complex piece of body that has many connotations.
For me, I wanted to make a statement about how women are more than often sexualized and seemingly only good for their sex drive or sexual endeavors. Similarly in the fairy tale Jack and the Beanstalk, the golden goose is only good for its eggs and nothing more. Though the entire story is based around young boy Jack, the golden goose is vital to the story because it shows that men, not all of them, like the giant are constantly trying to pry from women the privilege of sexual encounters. The giant takes advantage of the good for her eggs and do not for a second attend to her need. This is the issue on out world today: many men do not seek to please women but rather seek pleasure from them. Thus, this piece entitled "Golden Goose" alludes to the fact that women seem to only be good for their vaginas when really it is there soul that should be valued.
Technically speaking, I began with a base layer of pinks/neutral tones, stepped into a grayscale on top of that, and then added 5-6 layers of glazes ranging from baby pink, to deep purple, to bright red. Underpainting, while inconvenient at times, served to be vital to the outcome of the piece.

# data[].attributes.body
This piece was inspired not only by the "Woman in Front" Exhibition but also a class discuss from my Figure Drawing Class.  The question on how woman can take back their bodies, person, and space has many yet somehow limited answers. One prominent answer I've seen done in media and art, is the idea of a woman take back her space in a 'violent' manner. I wanted to depict not the violent action, but an aftermath sequence with a woman seemingly flipping the paintings over while men sit on the floor, their faces covered. She's maintains her space for her work, cleaning up and removing what interferes.

# data[].attributes.body
The Glass Coffin
This piece is inspired by the gallery space of MASP, which uses glass easels to display art. I also critique gallery/museum is a coffin of art, which every art ends up went to the storage room of the museum.