What Art tells us about Gender
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
- There is a huge range of ways that gender has been understood and represented in the history of art. We look at a few examples that show us gender is a concept that has never been fixed: Hermaphroditos by the ancient Greeks, Titian's Venus of Urbino, Baule portrait masks, the photographs of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, and Maya stone carvings.
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Favorite gender thought experiment. "Written on the body" by Jeannette Winterson, in which a story is told in the first person by someone whose gender the reader never knows. This person has graphic sex with male and female partners, without ever revealing what "parts" they have. Importantly, I found that myself and others who read this have moments in the book where they think of the protagonist as having a specific gender - male or female - but we vary in those moments. For example, the protaganist strikes an ex-girlfriend, and our reaction to that violence depends on the gender we assign to that moment.
I'm really intrigued! Thank you for sharing :)
Very true about the part about our bias based on gender of the abuser. A very important issue too. Abuse is abuse: very, very wrong. Domestic/partner abuse is even more abhorent and depressingly common in all relationships, straight/cis or not.
@@oof-rr5nf Agree! I was shocked at myself when I realized I did not care as much about the violence when I imagined it as female on female. Unconscious bias is real!
That’s so interesting
@@kts8900 Men can cause more physical pain to a person than a woman can. Sadly I just came to this video after witnessing a cousin laughing at an article about a boy stabbing a girl in the leg; all the comments were making fun of the whole thing. When men hit women, we don't care, we make excuses, we justify, we ignore, or we laugh. When it's the other way round, we complain because it's not taken seriously enough, all the while taking it seriously.
Men can hurt, even kill women, and expect little punishment...
The whole section about the Mblo mask was FASCINATING. That's such an incredible and genius way of making gender role somewhat codified while also keeping them democratic and far from taboo. It's so interesting to see the ways that different cultures have discussed and seen. Thanks for this!
Have you seen the dances they do while wearing the mask? If you haven't you should check it out. I guarantee you'll find it interesting. I think it's delightful! I've never seen anything quite like it. :)
@@jamesandchante I'll check it out!
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I usually get uncomfortable talking about gender because it’s such a complex topic, but i thoroughly enjoyed this video and learning the different ways to express gender
Thanks, Lilith! This one was super challenging to write, but in the end really fulfilling to try to work thought the complexity.
complex? Has a pipi, doesn't have a pipi.
Ah, I see now. The pipi is not usually shown in public, therefore is not easily identifiable. It's on u if u can't figure that out.
There is nothing complicated about gender, because there are only two. Male and female.
here's a cool fact, sex hormones have large effects on behaviour i believe and men and women consistently fall into distinct personality patterns and im pretty sure this has always been roughly the same
like more specifically testosterone inhibits oxytocin, oxytocin is something i think we know has certain effects on your behaviour or how you respond to things, and we can see big 5 traits from clinical psychology that correspond to this
This was great! I'm nonbinary, and when I see videos about gender pop up in my subscription box I get nervous, it's so easy to get things wrong and throw trans people under the bus to try to tell a simple story. I love that I can trust the Art Assignment to both make great content and be respectful of all its viewers.
As a “non binary” person would you say you just don’t particularly identify, with the traditional traits credited to your birth gender, in your particular society? Or does it mean something else to you? I’m not necessarily trying to challenge you here, I am just curious.
Non-binary means to not identify with either gender but some where in between
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@@exiletsj2570 non-binary is an umbrella term that means your gender identity is incompatible with a binary gender system. there exists much more specific terms to detail what you're asking about.
@@exiletsj2570 if you reply with shit I'm not going to bother.
I'm a nonbinary person. My experience with being nonbinary is that I just am- I don't know how else to think of myself. When I try to think of myself in the future and the present as the gender I was assigned at birth, I just feel trapped and like an alien, even though my interests and the things I like are often associated with a binary gender. When I try to think of myself as any binary gender my mind draws a blank.
I hope this satisfies you.
I love the inclusion of different cultures
cultural appropriation
@@Colonies_Dev 😒
It’s the art world. Art knows no boundaries.
The Olympia painting always makes me laugh. The absolute frankness of the painting is something to behold, plus the fact that it somehow is more realistic than its inspiration
Nonbinary artist here! Cahun's words truly hit me :')
Same here!
Ayy! right there with you!
Frida Kahlo was the first artist to inspire me to rethink gender.
Yes! It was difficult to leave Frida on the proverbial cutting room floor for this one, but in trying to show art from a wider variety of times and places, I focused elsewhere. Still SOOOO good, and very important to this discussion.
@@theartassignmentI'm happy I learned about new (to me) people!
Frida literally just painted herself, idk how that questions the notions of gender
@@drewdelu Many of her self portraits were specifically about her life as a woman. The one I thought about during this video was Frida's portrait with chopped hair. She painted herself dressed in a suit with piece of her hair scattered on the floor.
@@drewdelu agree with your comment.....
i love frida but this is not her platform ...
art assignment videos are always so thoughtful and well-researched 😌
the art assignment said trans rights
They actually didn’t. They remained completely nonpartisan throughout the entire video. In the beginning of the video she states she will cover art from a perspective of gender as a construct, not biological sex. She caps off the video by saying, “humans like a clear binary, but art does not support one. As these works show us, gender complexity is nothing new”. In other words, the social binary of feminine and masculine does not exist. She also points out an example of an intersex sculpture, and how intersex people were once persecuted. Nothing supported people making the claim it is possible to biologically change your gender. They also didn’t like your comment, so that says a lot.
DaniL’s ChanneL i’m not gonna read your essay daniel lol
the art asignment says trans rights
Griffin The Art Assignment is too smart to support trangenderism because they know it is based on supporting sexist stereotypes and attempting to erase sex which results in the erasing of women as a class. TAA used this video to dismantle gender. Transgenders uphold it.
DaniL’s ChanneL please take a moment to look through the comments section and see how many comments from trans people have likes from the channel. just because you’re a bigoted piece of shit does not mean mr. and ms. green and their collaborators are
I believe in the good nature of the Art Assignment community. This comment section will be nothing but honest attempts to learn, understand and grow as people, Amen
May you be correct, and our moderators ever-vigilant.
Is this your first day on the internet? :-)
Comments are usually personal opinions. Learning, understanding and growing are good things but why are hopes so high for this video?
Ninefox
What parallel earth are you from heheh.
@redpill what form does your respect take? Because being treated and acknowledged as a woman is the respect that a transwoman is seeking and if you withhold this, refusing to offer respect in the form in which it's requested, can that genuinely be called "respect"?
I am so glad that you emphasize "productive discussion." So often that is not what I see happening when the subject of gender comes up.
I am fascinated by these permutations on the idea. Definitely time to go take a look for myself.
Thank you!
My Drag friend-
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Me - ( shares this video)
My Drag friend-
" I have been inspired and reborn, courtesy of the mysteriously savage Lady Shook! "
Me "It's Spelt Xoc or Xook"
My Drag friend-
" Even Better!!! Tremble Bitches , know me now, for I am the Lady Xook! or i will be after a bit of art research and pre colombian beauty tips....."
Me " Don't do the tongue thing when I'm around you, lady Xook."
This made my day. Thank you.
aaaaah cutest comment award
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Anyone disliking the video because "there are only two genders" clearly didn't watch the video. Art assignment never states their opinion on gender, it simply takes a historic look on gender roles in art, and specific artists and what they thought about gender.
Opinions about gender are stated at 01:43 and 14:12 .
What does "opinions about gender" even mean. Saying "there are only two genders and they are completely determined biological sex" is like saying "the sky is green" - someone can say it all they want, but it is just not true. Humans have had thousands of cultures, all of which interpret gender differently and all of which have different gender roles. The ideas of a third gender, a nonbinary gender, or transgenderism are not new in the slightest, even in western culture (read: Catalina de Erauso aka Antonio de Erauso, who lived as a man in 1500s/1600s). When did other people's identities suddenly become something that everyone decided they should have an opinion on?
/endrant
(sorry for the tangent)
@@edawhat3737 What you explained is "self identity" not gender. I believe most of the so-called issue is simply the wrong noun.
@@artpipe What I am saying is all gender is self identity. When people equate "woman" to "female" or "man" to "male", they are trying to meld self identity and biological sex
@@edawhat3737 I agree, self identity is gender but nowadays people are choosing to identify with the opposite sex or whatever their minds can imagine. While anyone can imagine (self identify) themselves as anything, gender remains the same was my point.
Trans rights
Lmao
@@jolynes_fingernails7147 I did. Trans rights
Okey
Trans rights!
@@jolynes_fingernails7147 Wait. Didnt you also say something? That they totally wanted?
hmm...
I always appreciate the ways Queen Elizabeth played with gender and power in her portraits. Barbara Kruger does powerful work in this space. But for me, the most important artist dealing directly with gender issues is Contrapoints.
YES! I'm only recently enlightened to Contrapoints.
A fascinating, thought provoking and insightful video containing an important and cautionary message about bias, along with the problematic perception of 'the clear binary' in history of art. This video is so good, it should be shown in school classrooms.
Can you do a video on sleep, dreams and nightmares? The nightmare by henry fuseli comes to mind
here's the case for surrealism...! ruclips.net/video/wtPBOwE0Qn0/видео.html (it's a start)
Ooh and the overlap with mysticism...Is it a dream? is it god? can we tell?
As an artist myself, I often question if there are things to question or experiment with in my art so I can express the different ways I see different topics. It's nice to know that many other artists from the past have had the same idea as me which pushes me to create art and history of my own to continue to experiment, challenge, question, educate and interpret gender and gender roles in a new light. another great video, very intriguing
This is a super interesting video. I'm a trans masculine artist and much of my art is about showing different expressions and expreriences of masculinity
where can we see your creations buddy ?
Dude you should respond to these people, it looks like you got fans now
you are a woman. deal with it
@@maxstirner8310 no one asked you. Deal with it.
@@_blank-_ noooo, they didn't say that
Contrapoints' channel comes to mind when speaking of gender and art.
Natalie IS art
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Thank you so much for recommending her channel here. I didn't know of it, and it's wonderful!
The Art Assignment I now expect the next food episode to make reference to mouthfeel. :D
AnimeOtaku2 there’s too many people taking about the mouthfeel now
I am literally crying, cause even tho we barely see an introduction of how we play and conceive the idea of gender is the openness to discuss and understand the social and historical expression of it. And it is so uplifting and validating to have such a conversation through respect and genuine interest.
There are not very many videos of quality art and you have done a very thorough job at educating us... very informative.
wish this video had been out two years ago when i was writing an essay on this subject for my a-levels lol (I ended up writing about frida kahlo, an artist i follow online, and gluck) ! still, great video as ever and great to see claude cahun getting a shout out and also great to have a less euro-centric focus. speaking of claude cahun anyone else think of gillian wearing as claude cahun with ezra miller's met gala look? the levels.
Now, I rarely comment on anything on RUclips. But thank you so much for making me aware of the works of Claude Cahun. I actually had to stop at 8:37 - good gracious.
This reminded me so much of a Mapplethorpe exhibition in Düsseldorf 2010. He too did some amazing self portraits. I went there with my mother, me at age 18, and they curated a section called "C**ks and Flowers" - yeah. BTW If you've got the chance to visit the Guggenheim in NYC: his works are on display till January 5, 2020. If anyone want's to meet there this year at World Pride, I'll be there too :D
As an individual who is nonbinary, the topics discussed within this video were superb. The inclusion of different cultures, especially throughout history, is very empowering.
So THAT’S where the term “Hermaphrodite” came from! 😱
Pretty cool, huh? Just as a heads up, hermaphrodite is considered a slur by most of the intersex community, we prefer to be called simply intersex. The term is still used for animals though!
@@alexp7016 could you give me some further insight on why that is? I'm not intersex but I always thought that being called after a god-like entity was so cool that I never considered it a slur and I kind of still have a hard time considering it as such.
@@CyberVelvet420 I want to know an intersex person's perspective in order to better understand where they come from. I'm in no way saying that I am correct in my judgement. in fact, I asked IN ORDER TO CHANGE IT.
@@CyberVelvet420 I genuinely wasn't trying to imply skepticism. I just want to have more empathy and more understanding on the matter, and I welcome many different perspectives on even the silliest thing, hence why I even considered posing that question. and I think that explaining why I can't 100% relate to an issue I never dealt with is important especially in this context. I understand your and other people's frustration, but I think that a more aggressive reaction could be reserved for times when the conversation revolves more on moronish behaviour or stubborn mindsets rather than someone reaching out. I am in no way trying to invalidate intersex people, quite the opposite. and I want to understand more in order to make an educated remark in case I speak to someone who is intersex or if I feel empowered to defend them. sorry but I felt a bit hurt by your comment. honestly I never knew it was a slur until recently. I'm glad we clarified. your point is valid. have a nice weekend as well!
@John Lambie I managed to understand a bit better in the meantime and what I came up with that now makes more sense, even if I still might be very wrong, is that since it is a term used for plants and animals and not people, it can feel dehumanizing, so I have a bit deeper understanding about why it is wrong. I wish it was not a slur but it has been used as such. I simply never knew it. and as a non-intersex person myself I cannot decide wether the community will embrace it or not. embracing the term has the possibility of overwhelming the negative history it has in correlation to human experience, even though it might do good as well.
I think art is inherently connected to identity, even if it not consciously attempting to be so, and I also think that gender is such a pillar of identity. No matter whether you sit within or beyond a gender identity, or whether gender means something to you or nothing to you, it is quite foundational in your identity and in your interpersonal voice.
I think what these pieces do is show a fluidity of gender. In that, while it as an identity is seemingly innate, a binary is not. I think this is important in modern times because societally there seems to be a fixation on a binary and a belief that it is innate. History doesn’t tell us this.
I feel like I’m leaving a lot out of this comment because I think gender is significantly more complicated than a 150 word youtube comment, but nevertheless I wanted to share my opinion and support the art assignment in their wonderful content.
@John Lamee How about no..............
@John Lamee Nah :/
John Lamee trans women are women die mad about it snowflake
@John Lamee well, sex isn't gender. And biological sex is so much more complicated than just male, female, or intersex. As so much else in nature, it is more of a spectrum than three simple boxes.
Same with gender.
Nothing in nature is ever that simple.
@John Lamee As a Trans male, that's not how it works. I don't prefer dressing like a man, I want to be a man. I'm still feminine, but I'm a man.
This is really a great step to respect the LGBT community and their rights to be who they are. Art Assignment, I love you!!!!!!!!!
What a brilliant video (no surprise here!) Some examples from the history of staged photography might prove useful here as well: Marcel Duchamp's alter-ego Rrose Sélavy (photographed by Man Ray), Samuel Fosso's "African Spirits" series, and more recently, Chan-Hyo Bae's "Existing in Costume" series, and Rie Yamada's "Famillie weden" series.
Really great works to bring into the discussion! Thanks for contributing them here. There were so many good recent and 20th Century examples of art that would be relevant to this discussion. Worthy of many additional episodes.
@14 minutes and 14 seconds I spotted a ... lack of clarity. It's not so much "we humans" as "we so called westerners, that is, people raised with European values". Not all cultures believe in a strict binary.
yES i've never clicked on anything faster
I've been looking for a good video tying art and gender together, glad I found it
I thought it’d be an interesting to show that, this has happened in the US as well, especially in the art field. I might be coming off the wrong way, but the Navajo are people that’ve explores these concepts with men taking on traditionally female related roles, like sowing and the ways of cooking and keeping the tents they’ve used, as well as herbalism, but that’s more towards the medicine man/shamanic routes. Some dressed with more feminine clothing, and took their practices towards different ways also.
This is important, because if we don’t look at the people before us, and the ones that currently exist within their own traditions, then why aren’t we observing them more often? We adopted our Confederacy Papers off of tribes from the NE, and eventually, our own democratic system. What else could we learn?
Small tangent at the end of this, but still, I hoped this was helpful. Stay safe all!
I'm glad you shared this comment. I don't much about Navajo culture, so it was interesting to read.
I came here from Vlogbrothers….Mrs. Green, you're awesome! Thanks for doing what you do :)
I love how looking and thinking about those pieces helps me "cleaning away" the tensions that our time forces upon us. Putting things into perspective, opening ourselves to other cultures is always so appeasing.
Great video as always guys !
Excellent first look into this subject. I do hope it becomes a series or maybe a topic frequently visited.
Thanks. I'm now mulling one about masculinity in art, but fearful of the trolls!
@@theartassignment Trolls be damned - we need this video!
@@theartassignment oh please oh please do this!!!!!!
It's so uplifting to learn more about history of diverse identities and topics
You never had a library?
alejandromolinac, have you ever been to a library? I’m guessing they didn’t search for this video, probably popped up in their recommended. So they watched it. At library’s normally you go knowing what you want, or the general idea of what you want. If you have no idea of a topic before going to the library, or no interest in it. You probably are not going to get a book on it. So when they saw it in their remcomeded they thought it sounded interesting and wanted to watch it. Now if they want to learn more on this topic, they’ll go to a library.
Maybe you should learn what a library is before being annoying to people who just enjoyed a video YOU watched.
It would be so interesting to here about the female gaze/ point of view- women looking at the world or people around them. How is that different from a male point of view. I love the channel, keep up the amazing content!
Check out "Nanette" the netflix comedy special by Hannah Gadsby. She does a whole thing on artists(has an art degree) including her dislike of the chauvanistic picasso. How he broke art by imagining a world in which we could see all perspectives at once...but none of them were female...
strontiumXnitrate the male gaze - endlessly horny, narcissistic, looking at the world with a misplaced sense of entitlement and a male ego the size of the known universe, and instead of coming to terms with their own disfunctionalities, projects them all onto the female half of the population. Then accuses all women of doing the same exact things.
@Kayden McCallum sry but what exactly do you mean?
Art Assignment is absolutely one of my favourite channels and I feel like it’s the only I’ve seen so far where I can genuinely learn, and art isn’t discussed in a convoluted manner. You guys are always well researched and give more than one argument to a case. Keep doing what you’re doing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I want a part two of this video!! The two lesbians that did the paper on gender non conformity/ what now a days would likely be categorized as a nonbinary identity gave me CHILLS.
You're cool, Sarah/other people who make this channel happen. I'm looking forward to the rest of this series :)
This is really interesting, thanks. When I took fine arts in the '90's, gender wasn't a thing that was discussed much, except in the context of feminist art like Miriam Shapiro and Georgia O'Keefe.
Some of the work I do is scientific illustration commissions and I learned that if I disguise my gender and let them assume I'm male (I'm not), that I will be second guessed to my accuracy and knowledge and paid more in commissions, almost as if gender itself lends credibility. Of course that's nonsense, but it is the reality.
Tesseracttoo will or will not?
@@unoaotroa What are you asking?
Oh my gosh! I wished I had this video a week ago!! This video details sooo many works from AP Art History, amazing job!
This series was designed for people just like you a week ago! Sorry our timing was off, but future AP test takers will hopefully find this useful. I bet you did well regardless ;).
Please, insert captions in the videos other than automatic ones. It gives an option to people who want to see it subtitled (like me) and presents better certain names, like the african ones. Thanks a lot, your content is amazing!
i study art and often focus on being transmasculine in my works ! (:
Ooh what materials do you work in?
Is there anywhere online we can view your work? :)
I really appreciate the efforts to bring a more globally-minded conversation of art history. A lot of art education centers around European involvement in art movements, and art from other corners of the world (if taught at all) gets lost in time.
I was wondering though, if both Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore identify as a gender other than male or female (and both changed their names to gender neutral names), shouldn't we use the pronouns they/them to describe the duo? I've seen lots of larger institutions use she/her and still refer to them by their former female names. Although they may not have outwardly identified as the word trans, can we as art folk of the present borrow this more modern approach of mindful pronouns? Just a thought! Thanks for the amazing video as always!
Wonderful presentation, excellent information and insight, and beautiful pronunciation. Thank you. This gave me new understandings.
If you could make a video about Bauhaus I'd be so happy to watch it :)
i’m naturally drawn to art history, so these subjects are usually pretty easy for me to understand, but your videos make it so much more accessible to the general public, and that’s honestly amazing
I hope you're right and thank you! If you ever see/hear me using alienating art speak, don't be afraid to call me out ;).
I would love more videos going through various expressions of and reactions to gender in art throughout the world and throughout history. This video made me hungry for more oh my god I love it. I especially love that this video gave the context of how this art was a depiction of the artists’ and their society’s relationship to gender.
beautifully made. really appreciate your videos as an educator and as a grad student. they are really helpful. thank you.
Another thing that my art history teacher pointed out to me about the "Venus" paintings is that they always had a dog in them. She called the dog "Fido" because that means loyalty, which is what the dogs were supposed to represent. So, not only is the first Venus taken because servants are getting her things out of a wedding chest, but dear Fido reassures the viewer that this is all within the commitment of marriage, so it is okay. Fido shows up in a few other iterations of this theme.
By contrast, the Manet has a cat in it. No loyalty here, only the inconsistent affections of a cat, and a black cat at that. There has got to be something here connected to the thread of witches and black cats, but I do not know. One last detail is that Manet is also calling out society's racism because as low on the hierarchy as a sex worker is, even she is above her black servant.
I love this video because it shines a light on something we usually argue or ignore. Gender is only a touchy subject to those who don’t understand it. I view myself as non-binary and Im exploring ways on how to include gender in my art, after seeing this, gender needs to be shown in a modern way so that it’ll make it into art history, it’s never to late.
Robert Mapplethorpe along with Claude Cahun are big influences for me
holy wow this is the first youtube comment section with top comments supporting trans rights. is.. is this a dream??? 🏳️🌈
Nowhere in this is "trans rights" supported. What is presented here is that human identity complexity is both very old, and consistent. It's not advocacy, it's reality in art.
@@johnsmith1474 So in other words, art history said trans rights
I think that the works of Robert Mapplethorpe and Nan Goldin prove an interesting gender 'shuffle' as Claude Cahun stated, and they reveal an aesthetic into how the anatomy whether it is masculine or feminine is challenged in its generally-accepted role by society, albeit they did photograph their subjects too while adhering to the gender norms at times. Another artist to highlight would be Wolfgang Tillmans in how he equates gender roles in his dual portraits of both male and female subjects, reflecting a slowly emerging genderless revolution towards the end of the 20th century that has become evidently more outspoken in our current one. These works will be a staple of how we view gender in our contemporary age, and will speak volumes about our gender lifestyles to the future generations.
Ah, so good! I'm fascinated by the degree to which we gender things and ourselves -- aptitudes, ways of being, behaviour, dress, roles -- and seeing it explored through time and cultures via art is brilliant. Yet another way art is a great vehicle for so many things! I've personally not (yet!) used art as a lens for issues of gender, but that's going to change now, thank you for pointing me toward a new way to engage, doubly so for the foray into Maya artwork! I've long been interested in them and even did a thesis on their architecture and art; makes me want to dive back in and see what's newly emerged in the field. :)
just took the ap art history test last week!! so cool to see some of the artworks in this video
Once again showing many cultures and times in the same respectful light!!! Love this series!!!
Genuinely suprised people are saying that art assignment doesn't support transgender rights. Their entry point into the video brings up the distinction between sex and gender.
Sarah, thank you for sharing your love of art
it's so important when looking at gender to look at the related facets such as identity and portraiture, as like many things in life, they are not isolated realms of study. One artists who i think explores these quite well is Cindy Sherman. Her works do show many similarities with Claude Cahun, and it is interesting to see how time has changed these ideas of investigation.
Definitely thought you might mention Gerda Wegener's paintings of her partner Lili Elbe. The move "The Danish Girl" is interesting but doesn't capture all the intricacies of Lili and Gerda's life. Gerda was a famous erotica painter, often painting women having sex together, and she asked her husband to model for one of her paintings. Lili became the dual persona of Einar Wegener, and it started through Gerda's art. "Mosaiques" by Helene Allatini is a memoir about her own experience as friend of Gerda and Lili. I highly recommend it!
I am really enjoying Blinkpopshift's current journey on RUclips.
Just a random observation - The map with Guatemala has the incorrect spelling of Guatemala City, the capital.
Wtf is this comments section. To me, the art assignment simply talks about gender in art and the different perspectives in it. I don’t see it taking a side or a political stance. Rather it observed the fact that gender is a popularly discussed/questioned topic in art.
Thumbs up for using CE and BCE!
HERE for this series! Thank You :)
nonbinary human here: i loved this video!!!!
strontiumXnitrate ?
“Human” sounds like something a non human would say. Are you an alien in disguise! Or maybe a robot!
I find the conclusions posited about ancient cultures' attitudes toward gender based on their art (e.g. Mayan sculptures) somewhat specious. The first example of Hermaphroditus sculptures in ancient Rome could easily suggest that Romans had very accepting attitudes towards hermaphrodites, barring the existence of other contemporaneous evidence to the contrary.
gender and art? what better example is there than contrapoints
Wow! Claude Cahun's work is incredible! Thank you for introducing me to their work. :)
Mary Cassatt is one of my favourite painters :)
Love this topic and thank you Art Assignment for diving right into it. May i know what was the first video? Thanks ♡
For me as a gender bon binary person this art is first and foremost validation. We are not new. We are as old as humanity.
this is the only channel I can binge watch guilt free
Futanari is already known by the Greeks and Romans?
Many, many thanks for this lovely and enlightening video. I found it very educational and on point! 👏👏👏👏👏
Great video. But the audio is the background is annoying. It's too loud.
“Ideals proposed by men, but requiring the acceptance of the community’s women.”
Yo, just imagine a man wearing a mblo starts to breakdance and all the women laugh... imagine what kind of future would continue from that! Imagine the women embrace breakdancing as being feminine, and every male dancer has to embrace it too, learning how to breakdance and performing it at the African dances to everyone’s amusement. That would be amazing, I think.
This was wonderful and important to chellenge notions of gender binaries. It opens up a vein of creativity and self-expression. In particular I like how you referenced the feminine aspects of bodhisattvas.
No idea why, but my subconscious knew the first statue would be a subversion of typical gender standards with a beautiful hermaphroditic sculpture.
I saw the statue and knew what it was, though I never set eyes upon this before.
It is absolutely beautiful how the human condition is laid bare when you jump from european art, african art, to ancient mexican, and even asian art. How so similar we are to eachother yet with all unique perspectives on the same subject. Art history is truly a window not only to history, but tells the story of humanity that no other medium can
Please do more vids on gender!! This was so great!!
When I was a student at SAIC I saw Claude Cahun's photos on display and I contacted with them so greatly. When I saw them I didn't know words like gender queer, non-binary or Agender but seeing them helped me discover that about myself.
Now researching Gillian Wearing and Cahun relation. Next I will try connect to these pieces with Marisol Escobars' works (specially 'the party').
Art is a sanctuary where we can be anyone we like regardless of gender...
Thank you for this. I come from a very traditional family that believes men and women have strictly defined gender roles because "that's how nature works. It's been that way for hundreds of years, you can't fight nature" etc. This video offers evidence of what I believed but couldn't prove: nature has never been black and white and strictly defined gender roles have not existed in this form since the dawn of humanity at all. Thank you. :)
It's amazing how all of this is not something new. Loved to know that in the past there is a lot of fusion between men and women! I think that also in the hindu culture with all of the different gods and goddesses, men and women are a representation of great power, in different ways, but equally important.
So you can determine that the handprints in the cave were female based on the size of the hands.
I’m just curious. How do you know that the person was female? Should biology such as hand size determine sex or gender?
Sex is a biological spectrum where most people are male or female, but where hormones and body parts deviate from the binary.
Gender is a social construct that helps us live with the complexity of biological sex.
Certain hand sizes are common in biologically feminine people, so one can, even with wide margin of error, figure out what kind of people what hands belonged to!
@@Antipius That definition of gender is about five minutes old and false. Men have certain biological differences than women. There are no complexities.
@@deedevon7468 define man and woman. Then find a way to fit intersex people into that binary. Nature is simply more tricky than our often Victorian understanding of it!
It being a "new" definition also isn't an argument. Definitions change all the time and what matters is accuracy. For gender (not sex) the most consistent and useful definition right now seems to be one of self identity. There's no ambiguity or room for error there! If you think you're a woman, then you are. Awesome and facilitates a lot of people's happiness. :)
Cheers!
I really enjoyed this video as I do with all your work 😊
THANK YOU for naming Laure! Conversations about Olympia has erased her presence for so many years.
Also in southern Mexico there’s a place where there was no king, there the Red Queen ruled all her life. Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico
It makes me so happy to see all the comments from open-minded people. I expected to find negative comments and I'm very happy to see they're not here. Great job on the video and drawing the best viewers
I have a question for Latino people. Isn't the word 'Latino' gender-neutral already? The term 'Latinx' was used in this video to avoid gender binaries but I have seen many say that it is an incorrect usage. Please educate me on this.
never knew about that greek reclining nude sculpture. Oddly ingenious and profound in it's own tongue in cheek way
Would love more of this! So eye opening/inspiring
4:18 the torso is not impossibly long, I just saw the proportions, it´s somewhat standard proportions, I ve seen many women in real life with similar proportions. By the same token, the feet are not impossibly small. They seem about standard. (that means, about the length of her face)
When you are beginning to read your art history readings and then the art assignment uploads... 🤓