Marilyn Minter Pretty Dirty

Marilyn Minter

(American Born 1948)

Pretty Dirty Exhibition

(Brooklyn Museum November 2016 to May 2017)

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/marilyn_minter_pretty_dirty

Big Ideas:

Femininity

Individuality 

Expression

Beauty

Gaze

Provocative

Desire

Manipulation

Questions:

How does the artist connect the ideas of pretty and dirty in each piece?

How does the artist use composition, color, and clarity to create drama and meaning in these pieces?

What classifies something as beautiful or ugly?

How does the beauty industry create and manipulate desire through images?

How does the fashion and beauty industry commercialize the body and beauty?

Who/what is the "gaze" that declares what is beautiful or ugly?

What makes these pieces provocative?

How do these pieces embrace femininity, individuality, and expression?

How has the art world and specific artists changed the assumption of what beauty and femininity is?

The below pieces are enamel on metal or chromogenic print: