http://www.whalecrow.co.uk/whalec/2008/03/29/the-pink-lady-gender-types/ Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 19 May 2012 02:11:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.whalecrow.co.uk/whalec/2008/03/29/the-pink-lady-gender-types/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Andy Sat, 29 Mar 2008 18:22:59 +0000 http://www.whalecrow.co.uk/whalec/2008/03/29/the-pink-lady-gender-types/#comment-52 very nice, you've not gone over the top with hyperbolizing, which we're both guilty of so often. i do think that the male figure is genuinely disturbing particularly as i read him lying on the floor, catapleptic. i know this wasn't intentional on your part but for me it responds to all the falling men you've painted before, and in this act, the figure becomes far more powerful. he is in fact desiring that feeling of despair and hopelessness that you've tried to capture in the previous works, and by desiring this, by squirming on the floor like a maggot, his own pathetic-ness is magnified far beyond the others whose demise is at least an active one. the change in yur perception of the female taking command rather than the male, is less of an astonishing change for me looking at the piece than it is for you creating the piece, but thats not to underplay the personal importance it has for you and that fact that you allowed it to occur naturally is important. the play on male dominance turning to male impotence is not new within contemporary art but it is something that i'm still finding interesting myself. very nice, you’ve not gone over the top with hyperbolizing, which we’re both guilty of so often.
i do think that the male figure is genuinely disturbing particularly as i read him lying on the floor, catapleptic. i know this wasn’t intentional on your part but for me it responds to all the falling men you’ve painted before, and in this act, the figure becomes far more powerful. he is in fact desiring that feeling of despair and hopelessness that you’ve tried to capture in the previous works, and by desiring this, by squirming on the floor like a maggot, his own pathetic-ness is magnified far beyond the others whose demise is at least an active one.
the change in yur perception of the female taking command rather than the male, is less of an astonishing change for me looking at the piece than it is for you creating the piece, but thats not to underplay the personal importance it has for you and that fact that you allowed it to occur naturally is important. the play on male dominance turning to male impotence is not new within contemporary art but it is something that i’m still finding interesting myself.

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