Midterms are upon us! Of course the week that I have absolutely no time to blog, I have a million things that I want to write about! I’ve been studying like crazy for my art history midterm and starting a new project in drawing class that involves a reading. We’ve also been painting the figure in my painting class for the past two weeks for our current project, which has two aspects: the objective and the subjective. For the objective painting, we are meant to paint the figure as the model really is, observing her carefully and trying to achieve the closest likeness. For the subjective painting, we use the same model and set up and paint her expressively: we don’t have to have the whole model in the painting, and we don’t have to make it realistic.
The class that has been taking up most of my week, however, is photography. I had a presentation due this past week for photography on a photographer of my choice, and I choose Cindy Sherman. Cindy Sherman is a female photographer whose work has always struck me and who I often look to for inspiration not only aesthetically but also through the feminist messages of her photographs. Some of Sherman’s most famous works are her Untitled Film Stills, which are a series of Sherman playing all different dramatic stereotypical female roles. In her work, Sherman is usually her own model, but she’s very specific in stating that they aren’t self portraits; she is playing a role that the viewer should project their own meaning or themselves onto. With the film stills, I think that Sherman is so convincing in her portrayal of these roles in order to show that females can adapt to any role they are given, not just the assumed “female” ones. I found out a few weeks after picking Cindy Sherman to present on that some of her work is being shown here in Florence! Earlier this week I made a trip over to the Gucci Museo to see some very cool old Gucci items as well as the early work of Cindy Sherman. This included two sets of photographs, Bus Riders and Murder Mystery People, and a short film, Doll Clothes. In the Bus Rider series, Sherman plays different people that she would see riding the bus every day in New York, and in the Murder Mystery People series, she plays different characters in a made-up murder mystery movie. Cindy Sherman made the short film Doll Clothes while still in college. It is a short and simple stop motion film that sends a clear message about how society controls women and figuratively dresses and undresses us.
Not only did I have the presentation and a midterm photography critique to prepare and print for this week, but this past weekend we had a very special trip. Antonio Manta, a well known Italian fine-art printer and photographer, invited my photo professor and his classes to a two day workshop at his studio, Bottega Antonio Manta (BAM). It was truly an incredible opportunity! I unfortunately came down with a cold on Saturday morning so I couldn’t attend the first day, but apparently Antonio taught my classmates how he shoots portraits and how to use his lighting equipment. On Sunday I was feeling much better so I went for the second day, and I’m so glad I did! Antonio had us all put some work on his computer so that he could show us some of his Photoshop techniques on our photographs. After a delicious lunch that his staff had prepared for us (!), Antonio spent the rest of the day personally editing and printing our photographs. Everyone got at least one print by the end of the day! In the large group session in the morning, he had discussed my photographs with me as a comprehensive concept, and I think that he must have liked them a lot because he printed 5 of my photographs! He was a little intimidating and spoke only Italian (imagine translating a Photoshop lesson!), but he was one of the kindest and most generous people I’ve ever met. I’m so thankful to Antonio, his staff, and my photo professor for such an amazing opportunity! On top of everything, at the end of the workshop, Antonio offered to put together a show for all of us. I’m so amazed at how much he wanted to teach us and help us with, and I can’t wait to start shooting for my first photo show..in Italy. Holy cow.
With the photo show, my spring break trip to London, and some visitors from home in March and April all on the not so distant horizon, I think I can get through my midterms just fine. Happy studying to everyone with midterms this week, and you’ll hear from me in 2 weeks when I return from spring break!
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