Um olhar sobre o feminino nas artes visuais contemporâneas

Abstract

The universe of communication has undergone radical changes since the invention of photography, and new media. The Instagram has been pushing new forms of photography, and it enables us to a new imaginative conversation and new senses. The purpose of this research was to analyze the changes in the female body narrative in the visual arts throughout history and how our body can be used as an artistic expression. On this study, we compared the nuances about the changes of the visual narrative in the use of the female body as a subject in the art of the twentieth century, performing a cut in digital form, painting and photography. In addition, we explore the use of the new media to express and produce images, such as using the Instagram application. Thus, two images that express the female body were analyzed; the first one was of the Mexican artist Frida Khalo, her self-portrait with short hair, produced in the year 1940. The second image is a self-portrait of the American artist Cindy Sherman, titled Untitled Film Still # 6; work of the year of 1977. Data analysis showed that the new media, such as Instagram, can be used as a trigger for the construction of meaning in the production of images of the contemporary woman, dispensing with the use of words to share these ephemeral records through the use of the application on the internet.