Faceless By Shirin Neshat
SHIRIN NESHAT
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian Photographer and videographer born in 1974 who captures female and cultural/religious stereotypes in her works. Neshat’s work is that many of her images are endowed with a sense of empowerment. Her photographs include - Hands holding hands, forming a sense of solidarity, women in the possession of weapons, subverting traditional notions of gender roles and power.
In the B&W photograph “Faceless” from the 1994 “Women of Allah” series Neshat can be seen wearing a veil holding a gun and covered in Arabic text. These are all symbols that communicate complex issues that relate to identity and are related to how the western world sees the Muslim World. The veil is symbolic of the cultural change in Iran where …show more content…
She is known for her surreal paintings that innovated the surrealism movement of the art world. To make her artworks surreal, Kahlo would incorporate many symbols such as creatures, animals and plants. The use of symbols helped her express her feelings, thoughts and identity as a Mexican female.
Kahlo lived through traumatic events such as polio at the age of 7 and a vital car accident when she was 18. The accident left her in a great deal of pain with a broken spinal cord and broken bones all over the body. After having a total of 35 operations and being in a full body cast for over 3 months she decided to abandon the study of medicine and began to paint to occupy herself during the three months of immobilization.
The Oil on canvas artwork “Self Portrait along the Borderline between Mexico and the United States”, created in 1932, is a very symbolic painting. Kahlo can be seen standing behind two countries: Mexico and the United States. This painting is a referral to how the United States took all of Mexico's national land in 1848.
This can be seen by the symbols within the painting such as Kahlo herself, the flag she's holding, the sun & moon and the American
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian Photographer and videographer born in 1974 who captures female and cultural/religious stereotypes in her works. Neshat’s work is that many of her images are endowed with a sense of empowerment. Her photographs include - Hands holding hands, forming a sense of solidarity, women in the possession of weapons, subverting traditional notions of gender roles and power.
In the B&W photograph “Faceless” from the 1994 “Women of Allah” series Neshat can be seen wearing a veil holding a gun and covered in Arabic text. These are all symbols that communicate complex issues that relate to identity and are related to how the western world sees the Muslim World. The veil is symbolic of the cultural change in Iran where …show more content…
She is known for her surreal paintings that innovated the surrealism movement of the art world. To make her artworks surreal, Kahlo would incorporate many symbols such as creatures, animals and plants. The use of symbols helped her express her feelings, thoughts and identity as a Mexican female.
Kahlo lived through traumatic events such as polio at the age of 7 and a vital car accident when she was 18. The accident left her in a great deal of pain with a broken spinal cord and broken bones all over the body. After having a total of 35 operations and being in a full body cast for over 3 months she decided to abandon the study of medicine and began to paint to occupy herself during the three months of immobilization.
The Oil on canvas artwork “Self Portrait along the Borderline between Mexico and the United States”, created in 1932, is a very symbolic painting. Kahlo can be seen standing behind two countries: Mexico and the United States. This painting is a referral to how the United States took all of Mexico's national land in 1848.
This can be seen by the symbols within the painting such as Kahlo herself, the flag she's holding, the sun & moon and the American