Sexist Stereotypes Of Women In Art Analysis

Please do not plagiarise, for inspiration/point purposes only, this took me weeks

Depictions of women in art have changed and morphed depending on their cultures and time periods in which they’ve been photographed and painted. The contexts of the artworks vary in their representation of women and change throughout their history accordingly. Sexist stereotypes of women being passive and docile – archetypal to classical art adapt and shift to incredibly provocative of modern and post-modern ideas of perfection of the female within art; the shift having the eyes downcast to having the eyes confront, challenge and stare down the voyeur. Classical, modern and post-modern all have ideologies of perfection within art. The representation of
Lynn’s styles of portraits are oil on linen, and occasionally oil on canvas. Lynn is an Australian portraitist, who was also known for his landscapes earlier in his art career. He was born in Sydney in 1963, after school he as enrolled in a Bachelor of Visual Communication but then transferred to a Bachelor of Art, finding these didn’t fit his particular artistic style became a mainly self-taught artist, developing his particular style of portraiture. One of his numerous jobs included making illustrations for the Sydney Morning Herald, in 1989 he put in a proper work that was accepted to the Archibald as a finalist. He painted Tara Moss because of her persona in the public and her inspirational advocacy for so many organisations, she is what is seen as the ideal woman in modern times, and Lynn wanted to demonstrate this by painting such a portrait in 2013 and showing what women can really