Hw/Class #3

Part A
1. How do Mutu's Human/insect/machine-like distortions of the body relate to conventional notions of female beauty?
Mutu's way of Art is very unique in the sense that her work is very hard to depict and describe at first. You need to really dig deep in trying to define what she is portraying in her work. Most of her work describes the female body and different features to it all at once. Mutu's distortions of the body relate to conventional notions of female beauty by having different segments of beauty. It can be the face, or it can be the legs or the hands, you may not actually know from one look. It has different notions, different ways of portraying the pieces.

 2. Describe how one of her works functions formally. How is the work beautiful and how is it ugly?
This piece in particular I like myself. It's a woman and she is posing sort of as an animal like form, the beauty of it you see she wears different colors and her surroundings you cant really tell where she is. How can it be ugly, well some people may not like the fact that the women is bald, or her big lips that is shown. Another way that it is beautiful is you can not tell what her ethnicity is, she has small eyes, big lips, but is like skin... can she be African American, Hispanic, white, or Asian? That is the beauty of it.


Part B
a.Find an image of yourself several years ago, or,even better, a drawing or painting or artwork that you made a few years ago and are embarrassed by:
b. Post it on your blog. 1. Write a paragraph detailing everything that embarrasses you about the image, about the out-of-step fashion, haircut, attitude, drawing style, everything that your eye goes to and makes you want to cringe. Give yourself some time to think about it and write at least a few sentences.

Looking at this picture, it embarrasses me. I am really into fitness and living a healthy life style for 2 years straight now, this picture was taken about 3 and half years ago. I can't believe i let myself look like this, not saying that I am so obese and fat or I look so horrible, it's just that i see the difference in then and now and I just say WOW. My cheeks are fuller, my hair is not set right at all, it's just so different. Now I look slimmer and I focus on how i do my hair. Of course it may not always be done because I am always in the gym, but most time i Make sure it's done neat. You just see such a different in a 4 year span. Makes you not want to go back and just improve yourself more and more.