Bodies of Modernity
Gustave Caillebotte's Male Figures: Masculinity, Muscularity and Modernity
Lucian Freud
Lucian Freud is known for his portraits and examination of anatomy and psychology. Some of Freud's work focuses on gender and sexuality. Not sexuality in an erotic sense but in a raw, real sense. He paints those in reality not the distorted, fabricated appearance that people are often painted in. Disguising the flaws and blemishes that are a natural part of the human body.
"My work is purely autobiographical. It is about myself and my surroundings. It is an attempt at a record. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I live in and know. I use the people to invent my pictures with, and I can work more freely when they are there." - Lucian Freud
Social expectations of the male body
Today, I focused on collage again to create the male version of my female collages. I wanted to look at modern day standards for males which is something which is often looked by. Society is so focused on correcting woman beauty standards that we look past the fact that men are also expected to look a certain way.
I used fashion catwalk photos and old, vintage male porn photos to create my collages. cutting up and superimposing them over one another.