She specializes in psychological dramas in which figures airlifted out of art history consort with lower life forms, namely, cartoon people with big heads and bulging, tennis-ball eyes.
As an artist, she is exposing and challenging biases through her work by taking a alternative path when it comes to people understanding her paintings. She exaggerates her art to make a point out of what she is trying to express.
We’re building a crowdfunding platform to help queer and trans people raise money for prison-related costs — bail, bond, commissary.”
This part of the article is on identity politics and the need to help the LBGT community in raising money for prison-related costs
Ms. Eisenman wants the different elements in her paintings to hang together and tell a serious, sad-funny story.
This part speaks to me personally because I feel that paintings have a bigger impact when there are multiple perspectives emotionally.
Art was her escape in this troubled sea. She drew all the time. “I was obsessed,” she tells me, “capturing everything I saw and being fascinated with the incredibly simple task of looking at something and transmitting it onto paper. It’s an immediate magic.”
I can connect with this personally because just as Toyin used art to escape the harsh reality, I used dance to escape everything that was going on around me. I was told I was obsessed with dance because when I was upset or something terrible happened, I used danced to express how I felt without words. Dancing was my happy place where I could be myself and not worry what others think or my current life problems, just as Toyin used her art to escape the racial taunts and bullying from the people around her.
Toyin imagines a contemporary world in which blackness is the norm. She’s more like the artist and filmmaker Arthur Jafa, who has said, “I’m trying to make my shit as black as possible and still have you deal with my humanity.”
Toyin expresses her intersectionality by saying that being black is nothing special, that it is a common thing in society. She doesn't sugar coat anything, she just exposes the fact that "blackness is the norm"
Because she’s Nigerian, that shade, says Toyin, “is much deeper than you get in the American South. When I was growing up, our household was very patriarchal. People were happy when I was born, but when my brother was born, the whole village was involved. My father would tell my brother, ‘You have to do this or that because you’re carrying my name.’ My mom would take me aside and say, ‘I don’t care what your father says, you’re carrying my name. You got the Ojih.’ ” In 2015, Toyin officially added the “Ojih” to “Odutola.”
Toyin and her mother have been challenging biases throughout Toyin's childhood. Her household was very patriarchal meaning that the male was head of the family but in Toyin's eyes, her mother was the one in charge and who she looked up too.
because they had seen a proportionally larger amount of naked men than women, and were perhaps more invested in portraying the aesthetics of the male body that they so admired
I'm interested to knowing why they find a male's body to be more admirable than of a women's body.
imilarly, there is barely any record of female artists during the Renaissance, allowing there to be no examination of female artists who may have been publicly accused of sapphic practices as there is with male artists and their trials for sodomy
I found this really interesting. I wonder why?
“Right now I think there are a lot of sensitivities not just to race but to questions of identities in general.
I completely agree with this statement because besides sensitivity towards racial identity, there is also a great amount of sensitivity towards sexual identity as well due to the generational gap between today's youth and the past's elders. Though parents and grandparents of previous decades may be accustomed to strict, conservative guidelines and unintentional prejudice due to the lack of education upon sensitive topics such as the above, today's youth actively speak out about their troubles and movements towards a more open and comfortable environment. Thus, there is a divide between the generation passing and the one that is creating the future.
Art can be a space for empathy, a vehicle for connection.
I think Ms. Schutz's was to show empathy towards the family, especially the mom instead of unintentionally being racist to what happened to Emmett Till.
Women cannot do the same things as men
This has been an issue for the past years on what a women can or cannot do. In my opinion, a women can do anything she puts her mind to and men are scared because they feel they need to be the dominant race but in all fairness that is not always the case.
One issue that is of major concern to us and that we have begun to publicly address is racism in the white women's movement.
In order start a movement, you have to address the problem even if it might make a certain group of people unhappy. There has been racism in the white women's movement, so they should speak up, and not be afraid to face the reality of their situation.
America in which skin color didn’t matter.
I love this statement because in all honesty who says America is SUPPOSE to look a certain way. The reason America is so great is because there is so much diversity, if we all looked alike then life would be boring. Embrace your own uniqueness and being different is okay(:
In America today, every group feels this way to some extent. Whites and blacks, Latinos and Asians, men and women, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, straight people and gay people, liberals and conservatives – all feel their groups are being attacked, bullied, persecuted, discriminated against.
I feel like there will never be a time where every group is being attacked in one way or another. There is always going to be people out there that hate on the Asians or Latinos or Whites or Blacks etc. It is sad to know we live in a world where yes we have freedom of speech but sometimes it is used in the wrong way.
In contrast, it might be appropriate to use the IAT to teach jurors about the possibility of unintended bias.
When some people take these types of tests they realize that in some areas they are bias. In my opinion I think everyone is bias in their own way whether they know it or not.
People don’t always say what’s on their minds.
That's true, in today's society people don't always want to fully express themselves because they are afraid of being judged or dismissed.