5 articles tagged with "identity in art"
Teenagers think art is boring. Here's how to change that. Connect art to their world, use social media and visual culture, explore identity through art, and make museums actually interesting.
Botticelli painted Venus's hair as a threshold to desire. Mary Magdalene's red hair signaled sin. Monks shaved their heads for God. Discover hair as power in art.
Dürer painted himself as Christ. Rembrandt painted himself 40 times. Cindy Sherman photographed herself as 70 characters. Discover why artists have always painted themselves.
Kehinde Wiley puts Black subjects into the poses and settings of Old Master portraits. Learn how the American painter transformed official portraiture and why the Obama portrait changed everything.
Explore Cindy Sherman's radical reinvention of the self-portrait through film stills, history portraits, and fashion photography. Discover how she uses her own body to examine identity, representation, and the constructed nature of femininity across five decades of work.
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