Eleanor Antins video was inspiring to me because of how radical she is with her art. I feel that in my own work I like to take chances, and show my feminist side and I appreciate how shes unafraid. As a female artist or as any artist really, your just opening yourself up for criticism. Performance art is already controversial and not well-known by any means to the general public, the risk you take when undergoing a performance piece is higher than other art mediums. Will people get it? Will they hate it because they don't understand it? Will they view it as art? I think most performance art pieces require the viewer to use deeper thinking and research most of the time. Listening or watching the artist talk about there work is the fastest way to get to the meat of it all. Once you do get it, it almost hits you over the head and leaves you dumbfounded. I think Eleanor Antins work had that affect on me. I did have some back ground knowledge from Art History III, but when I watched the video I felt that I hadn't gotten the full picture from my class at all. Her exploration of different personalities through performance cuts to the heart of what it is to be a woman and what makes a woman. I think the end result shows you that gender is just superficial.
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