Narong Sokhom
The piece of work I found most controversial was Julian Opie’s Suzanne walking in leather skirt (2006), which is located in the ICA‘s permanent collection called Accumulations. Born 1958 in London, England, Opie uses contemporary media such as digital enhanced drawing, photography, and animation to point out his subject matter of landscape or portraiture. In this particular artwork, Opie creates a continuous computer animation on a 46 inch LCD computer screen. The “walking portrait” focuses on the swaying hips or the portrayal of a woman’s stride. The black and white animation reduces the specificity of the face and the figure. Instead, the figure is specified in the contours of the shoulders, body, and legs. The only detailed part of the work is the leather skirt. It truly captures the represented motion of a woman. The techniques he used with the contours of the body makes it look so accurate in the most life-like way. I thought this may be controversial because not all women walk in the specific way and that it describes the way people view woman today. The thinness of the figure also contributes to the gender representation. Just because some women, including models, walk in such a way, doesn’t necessarily make it a woman’s stride.
This portraiture took my attention mostly because it was an animated artwork that was used to describe something greater. Personally, I was impressed with the overall “walking” motion. I think that he really did well in this piece because by lessening details of the actual figure, it focused the audience‘s concentration on the unique stride. The style of the portrait by using advanced technology, I think is very effective. When I saw this, I focused my attention to the “walk”. It’s as if the artist was trying to show one of many aspects that people often view women as. I wonder how you would describe, then, of a man’s walk. Are there no specificity towards their walking style? Could some possibly walk in the portrayed style in this artwork or is a man’s figure contoured differently? I also thought about if had to do with the various ages. Is it of an older woman or would it be different if it was a young adult? I thought to myself and concluded that I don’t often see women walk that way, or is it because they don’t have that “figure”? The simplicity of the artwork caused me to raise questions in which other factors contributed to the creation of the artwork, such as gender, age, and maybe the various types of communities.
The piece of work I found most controversial was Julian Opie’s Suzanne walking in leather skirt (2006), which is located in the ICA‘s permanent collection called Accumulations. Born 1958 in London, England, Opie uses contemporary media such as digital enhanced drawing, photography, and animation to point out his subject matter of landscape or portraiture. In this particular artwork, Opie creates a continuous computer animation on a 46 inch LCD computer screen. The “walking portrait” focuses on the swaying hips or the portrayal of a woman’s stride. The black and white animation reduces the specificity of the face and the figure. Instead, the figure is specified in the contours of the shoulders, body, and legs. The only detailed part of the work is the leather skirt. It truly captures the represented motion of a woman. The techniques he used with the contours of the body makes it look so accurate in the most life-like way. I thought this may be controversial because not all women walk in the specific way and that it describes the way people view woman today. The thinness of the figure also contributes to the gender representation. Just because some women, including models, walk in such a way, doesn’t necessarily make it a woman’s stride.
This portraiture took my attention mostly because it was an animated artwork that was used to describe something greater. Personally, I was impressed with the overall “walking” motion. I think that he really did well in this piece because by lessening details of the actual figure, it focused the audience‘s concentration on the unique stride. The style of the portrait by using advanced technology, I think is very effective. When I saw this, I focused my attention to the “walk”. It’s as if the artist was trying to show one of many aspects that people often view women as. I wonder how you would describe, then, of a man’s walk. Are there no specificity towards their walking style? Could some possibly walk in the portrayed style in this artwork or is a man’s figure contoured differently? I also thought about if had to do with the various ages. Is it of an older woman or would it be different if it was a young adult? I thought to myself and concluded that I don’t often see women walk that way, or is it because they don’t have that “figure”? The simplicity of the artwork caused me to raise questions in which other factors contributed to the creation of the artwork, such as gender, age, and maybe the various types of communities.
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