Title: MissRepresentation
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas.
Dimensions: 20” x 20” x 1.5”
Artistic Style & Inspiration: Religious art, cubism and naive art.
Artist: Dariana Arias.
Art Series: "Icons: Las Virgencitas (Our Beloved Virgins)"
Motif: Gender politics, beauty standards, beauty pageant contests.
Title: MissRepresentation
This artwork is part of the series, "Icons: Las Virgencitas (Our Beloved Virgins)", a social critique examining the legacy of gender politics in relation to race, body image, cultural aesthetics, and the overall social issues that result in exploitative structures.
The collection in its enterity, is comprised of 12 mixed media portraits of sexualized virgins; only 9 are available for sale.
These virgins serve as ironic analogies, that convey the incongruity between pious religious standards, and the overtly sexualized female, constantly promoted by mainstream media.
The thought-provoking images, reflect on the impact that Hollywood's conceptualization of womanhood has had, on the collective female psyche (within an intersectional framework).
This artwork is about the beauty pageant competitions, and the misleading representations of beauty.
“The problem with short women, is that they are not harmonious (looking)… And afro-venezuelan women are not pretty; if we had a beautiful black woman, then she would be included in beauty pageants; but since black Venezuelans aren’t pretty, they are not allowed in the contest.” – The Czar of Beauty” Osmel Sousa, President of the Miss Venezuela Organization and judge on Univision’s Nuestra Belleza Latina.”
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