Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Group 4 Project-Horror


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Art-horror has two types of horrors, the visually beautiful horror and the twisted aesthetes. In their own way, there is an intend to induce feelings of alluring terror or the frightful truth. The following women artists show their own touch of horror artwork: Ana Mendieta, Cristina Otero and Laurie Lipton. Horror is usually known for creating chilling and disturbing images. However, it exhibits certain components of alluring beauty.

Ideally, identity correlates with the scary makeup, freaky facial expressions, and strange poses.  Based on self invention, Joanne Finkelstein, a Professor and Executive Dean at Virginia University, Australia, focused on the different techiniques that are used to present one's self. She states "It follows the techniques of its invention, presentation, delivery and performance propagate the reassuring belief that it exists..." (Finkelstein 138). Like Ana Mendieta, a Cuban American performance artist, her artwork revealed the gruesome side of the repressive state of being a woman by using blood and distraught presentations of her own body. These images are unsettling, but impose such an alarming message that addressed the domesive violence and male degradation of the female body.

Cristina Otero, the youngest Spanish photographer in Spain, known for her self-portaits represents the creative aspects of horror with animated makeup. She mentions "Even when im painting, all my interest goes to the human body and how it interacts in certain environments and circumstances, being that the female face is usually the protaganist". This type of horror shows more appealing features. The major reason for why Halloween is celebrated. Everyone is able to transform into someone or something else for a night.

Laurie Lipton used the fear of death to feel an illusion of control. After her mother's death, she began to illustrate drawings that frighten her. "Everything that’s happening and anything that’s going on in my life, feeds my pictures…I’m interpreting what I see and feel". Horror can be seen and expressed in various ways. Each of these women artist show their perspective of horror and how much it influences them to turn into an artwork.

 What's your fear? How would you express it? Is it an artistic way, paranoia, silence, or isolation? One thing, we can agree on is that there is a fascination with death so horror will always exist.


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'The Beauty Eater'
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