Oscar season is a time for people to appreciate film as an art form in all its different facets, from costume design to editing. This event has occurred for over half a century and therefore it has become normalized, so we do not question its existence. But why is it the most popular art-based award […]Read Post ›
A Joshua Reynolds painting at the Davis Museum recently had a symposium on its research. Here’s a bit of back story of the preliminary research.
As our readers, you all know it’s no secret how much we at The Female Gaze love the arts. It’s also no secret just how deeply entwined love and art are; love, lust, lovers, and love stories have been popular subjects for centuries in cultures around the world. Tender, poignant, tragic, sensual, and humorous representations […]Read Post ›
A few days before the New Year, my power went out and I was alone. It was scary, and without the distraction of entertainment run by electricity, I decided to write. I decided to draft my application to graduate school. I lit some candles, poured some red wine, wrapped myself in blankets and used what […]Read Post ›
We re-watch movies and binge-watching television shows that we have memorized. If we know the endings and we know all the jokes, why are we truly watching these things? One would say it is for the experience, but is not the experience lessened each time we re-watch something? In real life, if we go somewhere […]Read Post ›
I love finding the dead. Not in a way that will start the apocalypse or American Horror Story. Instead, it’s historical research. I’m finding people who had loose ends, who left a story behind tied to some event or object in a museum to have a deeper understanding. It’s about resolving the past […]Read Post ›
Before I opened this article, I was skeptical because the Artnet News Facebook page described it as “Your favorite Klimt paintings, transformed into high-end fashion photography.” High-end fashion photography tends to either be trendy and chic or ridiculous and overdone. However, upon opening the link and seeing Inge Prader’s photographs in comparison with the paintings, I […]Read Post ›
This is the first installment of a series we are trying at the Female Gaze where we revisit the first essays related to Art History that we wrote. I originally came to Wellesley thinking I would be a Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies double major, but took Writing in Art History for my first-year […]Read Post ›
I freely admit that I am more than a little biased about Rome. Two years ago, I lived in the Eternal City for ten weeks and the experience left an incredible impression on me. One of the most striking features of the cityscape is the great visibility of its “layers” – as the capital of […]Read Post ›
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