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Kara Walker Stereotypes

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Kara Walker; she is considered to be a historical artist, her art is mostly known from her paper silhouettes. It draws people in with reminiscences of Victorian times in history and there is a twist to these pieces. Kara Walker’s works focus on a lot of tough stereotypes in multiple situations that are violent and sexual. Kara Walker’s violent art works are known to causes a lot of divided thinking. Kara Walker likes to use paper silhouettes to express these art work in her own words she has said that they “say a lot with very little information.” It feels like a metaphor for stereotype because we don’t get to see who these people are, how they look, and where they are from. We only get to see a little bit of information; yet even though we …show more content…

One of them was a video of someone rolling around in glass, and you could tell that most people in the room had feelings of second hand pain. Even though I pretty sure almost all of us never rolled around in glass before that doesn’t limit us to understand how painful it would feel and that causes us to react. That is not only one of Chris Burden’s works; he has spent 5 days trapped in a locker in fetal position, been kick down 2 flights of stairs, crucified to a car, and he even got shot. Chris Burden art seems to express the thought and feeling of suffering by setting himself up in extreme situations that leads the audience to react. It’s different to how art usually is; distant, usually there is a clear line between you and the art you see, and you react by how you feel about it. But Chris Burden’s works are representing what you know is pain and he trying to make you feel what the person would be feeling in the same way almost like you are them. One of his most popular works was “Shoot” Chris Burden asked his friend to shoot him from a 15 feet distance, it seems that in this piece Burden was only supposed to be shot in a way that slightly cuts the arm. But do to target miscalculation it went straight through Chris Burden’s arm. This works gave the audience an actual experience of someone getting shot, Burden’s works removes the barrier between the art work and the person. This piece wasn’t fake or it wasn’t on acting on tv, it was someone actually getting shot in front of them. These people understand this, they were honestly shock and horrified when this happen. This is probably the reason why he try not to get his performances recorded because he said “I was very careful not to use film or video to record most of the performances, because I think most people, then, were not sophisticated enough to

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