HW for 9/15

Adriel Torres

09-13-21

                                                           HW for 9/15

Title - The Interventions: Trespassing Towards Relevance

Quotes - 

1. "When the words “political art” are spoken, most people imagine a unilateral institutional critique, depressing refugee photographs, or possibly graphic statements somehow attacking the viewer for ignorant complicity."

2. "The lack of these methods does not imply that such issues are less important now, but rather that the methods for communicating these issues have changed.

Response - 

Political art is a source or different forms of art to show or express information about politics and power. The reason on why people understand or correlate political art to be critiques on different issues is because in galleries they use mobile homes as an example to "present" rather than to "represent". Most people are very ignorant and just make assumptions or generalizations nowadays on everything when they should just analyze and understand the historical/political aspects and of events and issues.

Title - Understanding Patriarchy

Quotes - 

1."Most men never think about patriarchy - what it means, how it is created and sustained."

2. " At church they had learned that God created man to rule the world and everything in it and that it was the work of women to help men perform these tasks, to obey, and to always assume a subordinate role in relation to a powerful man."

Response - 

Honestly as a male myself, I did not even know what patriarchy meant. Teaching children and assigning their roles based on genders or sexual identities is not correct, in my opinion. Kids would then feel obligated and scared to just be themselves and are incarcerated from expressing who they really are, being limited to their freedom. Bell Hooks mentions how their parents believe in patriarchy by religion and because of their old beliefs, they felt it was right to just go along with it. Girls tend to be the ones taking care of others, cleaning, etc meanwhile guys are meant to work and take care of women, almost as if it were just stereotypical. Nowadays women are equal to men and have as much freedom and authority to do as they please having equal rights.

                                            ARTIST + SELF INTRODUCTION

Danielle Coke is an Atlanta illustrator. With many incidents and the whole black lives matter movement occurring last year, she made an instagram account which represents black history visually among the public.  The image below just blows me away and inspires me because it's simplistic and just straight to the point. The quote that Kamala Harris had said that's in the picture, is very eye capturing because race or color shouldn't make you treated differently and getting racially abused either, that defeats the whole purpose of equal rights and what people such as Marin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and etc fought for. Her artwork is similar in the sense that it's very direct and straight to the point.

Coke's artwork is amazing because it portrays equality in our civilization among people of all kinds despite coming from different places and having unique backgrounds. I come from a unique background, my mother is Dominican and my father is Honduran, so I'm mixed but I was actually born in the United States. The U.S. is a "free" country and we should not be having racial issues or tragedies happening day and night, that's unacceptable and against the laws and amendments of the constitution. The digital selfie (underneath) I've chosen is inspired by Coke because as I previously stated I'm from a different background and in the picture I'm in the city I was born in. I or anybody else should not feel threatened by any authority or another person because of their race, religion, color, sexuality or etc, because everybody's lives matter.