Women and art

All art is political . Every slap of paint on canvass , every sculpture every graffiti , drawing , and so on is a product of another individual 's particular sentiment , ideology and persuasion . Every work serves as an arbitrary reflection or extension of the artist or individual who created it . All art is able to evoke and communicate the aforementioned ideology and persuasion of its artist , whether or not the artist in question explicitly intended to do so

As far as the politics of art and conveying meanings and messages are concerned , however , women , it

would appear , are often on the receiving end of conceptual constructions or deconstructions , and general influences necessarily afforded by society , culture , and art . And no art form is capable of eliciting the most influence and affecting generally accepted social constructs and norms , than that of advertising . Of course , while most hardly regard advertising as an art form , but instead a field or medium which peddles products and ideologies through art which is one aspect of it the manner by which advertising makes use of art is perhaps , to a certain convoluted degree , one of the most crude but simultaneously honest as well . Honest because its audience , or the general public on the receiving end of such art are aware of its intentions , aware of its function to peddle or sell whatever product philosophy or worldview they are tasked to peddle at the moment Unfortunately , this awareness doesn 't always translate to lack of vulnerability and unaffectedness on people 's part

As previously mentioned , women are often on the receiving end of influences and constructs , as far as characteristics , roles , and unavoidably , stereotypes of the supposed weaker sex are concerned . In recent years , the prescribed image of what a woman is : how she should look , should feel , should think , should necessarily conduct , behave engage , and apply herself within the family , other social institutions and society at large is greatly dictated and shaped by commercial advertisements present in television , the radio , magazines , the internet , newss , and virtually the whole of mass media . While the stereotypical view that women are generally emotional and fragile has ceased to become breaking news , similar concepts and standards of what a woman is persists through commercial advertisements . Advertisements which define women based on her physical parts , as opposed to her ideas convictions , what she has the capacity for , and what she can actually do , how she works , and a myriad other things which comprise her as a human being . In commercial ads for clothes , perfumes , accessories , and so on , for instance , the aesthetic is given the highest regard , and women are reduced to the crudeness of waist lines , bust sizes , and weight , among other things

While one could argue that the opposite sex are also on the receiving end of such attacks on identity and gender , and that the same premise applies to men the prescribed standards and social constructs on women are far more predominant and palpable as evident in every magazine cover , billboard...