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A Comparative Essay comparing artist's views regarding contemporary issues
Introduction
This essay will be a comparison of my work in comparison to Cindy Sherman’s and another related artist’s work. The essay will explain why they appeal to me and their influences on me.

As an artist, I want people to visually question my work, as I feel there is more of an impact if the work is questionable. I try and make my work somewhat unique and humorous, for example in a recent piece about facial expression I created a photographic collage that was structured in its overall appearance yet the actual images of myself were peculiar. The piece consisted of about thirty photographs (approximately four centimeters square) with me pulling very different expressions which I
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Outline their art type.
CS - photography
Stereotying in general

Stereotypes
CS – rebelling against the idea of stereotyping which is portrayed in my own work and what we are expected to conform to in a mass society, i.e. dressing to conformity gives a sense of security, like uniform. People can become suspicious if you are not conforming to what people preconceive as ‘normal’. Normal being what the mass majority think and are used to which is conventional.
Society has preconceived ideas that you are strange, weird and odd if you don’t conform.
Exploiting the conformity of society based on people’s preconceived ideas and prescriptive way of thinking
CS is photographing what she sees as stereotyped clichés of women in her ‘film stills’ however, Krauss (2006, p.5) argues that through the acclaim she has received she has in fact ‘inverted the terms of her work and what has been held up for critical inspection has been transposed into the grounds of praise’.
Krauss suggests that the ‘film stills’ do not refer to any real films and are a result of Sherman’s imagination of her ‘fantasy’s of herself in certain roles’.

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