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The female gaze is a feminist theory term referring to the gaze of the female spectator, character or director of an artistic work, but more than the gender it is an issue of representing women as subjects having agency. As such, people of any gender can create films with a female gaze.
Comprising 10 large-scale portraits in Sarah Ball’s signature airy colors, new exhibit “Titled” challenges gender conventions and celebrates exuberant self-expression.
Conceptually, the female gaze is like the male gaze, the action by which women view men and women, and themselves, from the perspective of a heterosexual man. [13] The unequal social power of the male gaze is a conscious and subconscious effort to develop, establish, and maintain a sexual order of gender inequality in a patriarchal society.
The concept of the "male gaze" was first used by the English art critic John Berger in Ways of Seeing, a series of films for the BBC aired in January 1972, and later a book, as part of his analysis of the treatment of the nude in European painting. Berger described the difference between how men and women view and are viewed in art and in society.
Natalie Portman may be an outspoken feminist and co-founder of a female-driven soccer club (Angel City FC), but she isn’t a believer in the so-called “female gaze.” In an interview with ...
Other than that, Hov, Live, author of "The First Female Performers: Tumblers, Girls, and Mime Actresses", who suggested that "male-gaze" violence is a matter which "considered as universal" of all "theatre and performance", as long as "real women participate in the actions presented for the audience". [20]
The female nude in Western art had always represented a "Woman" as vulnerable, anonymous, passive, and ageless and the quintessential object of the male gaze. [5] However, Neel's female nudes contradicted and "satirized the notion and the standards of the female body." [5] By this sharp contrast to this prevailing idealistic idea of how the ...
Sleigh's work was included in the exhibition Women Painting Women (2022) at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth [32] and Framing the Female Gaze: Women Artists and the New Historicism (2023) at Lehman College Art Gallery, where her work was the "touchstone" for the exhibition. [33]