I M Your Doll Realism

Realism details the concept of an image as the true form of resurrection of life. Since time passes by with the sensations of moments fading into the depths of our memories , images are the method in ways artist recreate these visceral sensations. With realism being divided into social and visible realism. Social realism is being focused on the authentic imitations of the social landscape that is trying to be depicted. Visible realism shares the same concepts with say illusionism, in that they are interested in crafting a visceral sensation with the audience by use of aesthetically relevant and or exaggerated images. Both offer many caveats in orchestrating their message to their respective audiences. What’s interesting to note when looking

Because they are apparent, and can be seen in many mediums including television, painting, photography and even music. One example would be avant-pop chimera FKA Twigs, who directs her own music videos to help accentuate her aural soundscapes and messages on images. Specifically looking at her nightmarish video for “I’m Your Doll” where she demonstrates an abusive relationship between her and another man. She herself is only depicted by just her infantilized face, wide eyed, scared and the remainder of her figure is shown as a blow up sex doll. The following images show the man unbuckling his belt above her and licking the plastic that is her skin before penetrating her. Disturbing? Very much. While it’s images are hard to digest, they are very telling of abusive relationship where the more vulnerable party feels like a

His works range in either searing satire of racial tensions or serious takes on the matter that narratively are borderline operatic. His latest film named “Chi-Raq” based on the street name of impoverished ghettos in rural Chicago who have more deaths in it’s citizens than soldiers in Iraq. What’s interesting to note is that Lee bases the narrative off Aristophanes greek comedy “Lysistrata.” The movie is spoken in rhyming verse, similar to the rapping that is primarily heard in the streets of it’s setting. The story depicts a group of women performing a sex strike on their boyfriends to end the endless amounts of violence. The irony that Lee uses a two thousand year old text to make a social and artistic statement on the state of emergency that the city of Chicago, resembles the ideology that social realism resides