Post # 10

Beauty and Death Unmasked

  The art work in my opinion is a combination of both a cliché and a stereotype. To begin with the art work was made by KATRINA PALLON ))whom participated in a contest over women and their definition (something like that). There are two women whom seem ,to be coiling together in unison and also seem to be opposing factors with each other. Furthermore, the cliché in this artwork is the yin yang sign. This sign shows two opposing forces entwining within each other forming a balance of life and the distinction between good and "evil". Also, the picture is trying to tell you that in a women there is a good and a devilish part in her witch makes the definition of a women not necessarily defined. I believe that the yin yang sign is used too often and has become a clear and simple sign of balance making it a cliché.

          A stereotype of women would be (sometimes) necessary in order to find its definition. There are several examples that show this, one of them would be that on the side were beauty is showed there are vibrant colors, roses daisies and many flowers she is also wearing a considerable amount of makeup and has a nice tan kind of skin. Some people might argue that beauty is subjective and that both women on the picture are equally beautiful. The fact that that he used vibrant colors makeup and many other elements in the beauty side clearly states the stereotype of how beautiful women are supposed to look. On the other hand the death/dark side depicts a type of goth and women with monotonous flowers in the background. The foreground for both sides shows different kinds of masks one that has more color and the other one that "dark/deeper/simple" kind of colors. Personally I believe that beauty id subjective however society had made up a stereotype of how you are supposed to look and all that is left are our resistance to this brainwashing.