Critical Artist Expression

Brittany Zota

Art and Women 

Professor Cacoilo

28 January 2020

Mini Post #1

Two Fried Eggs and a Kebab

Eating A Banana, Divine

          Sarah Lucas is a British artist who uses visual puns and her sense of humor to represent the misogynist world we all live in today. The images shown above depict how men have always sexually objectified women. On the left, you see how Lucas carefully picks fried eggs and kebab as a direct synonym for lady-parts. Shamefully, men seem to think they have the right to objectify women as a prized possession rather than their own entity, and Lucas begins to shed light on these issues while putting a comical twist in her own way. On the right, Lucas takes an everyday item, a banana, to express the gender stereotype of men assuming that women's bodies are offered for consumption through means of satire. 

          Lucas's art contains a series of photographic self-portraits which helps society see her perception of masculinity on a deeper level. Through the work of her art is trying to bring attention to the awful issue women face every day. Her paradoxes show her perspective on the gender inequality problem while mixing it in with her street-language creativity and fearless feminine glare, in the hopes to rattle a society filled with men dominating power. Men feeling superior to women has led to inequality, gender stereotypes, and many derogatory perceptions for the female society. Sarah Lucas is taking a stand for womanhood everywhere by redefining female roles with common objects. 

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