Art21 Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She lives and works in New York. She got a BA from Buffalo State College, State University of New York in 1976. Cindy did all kinds of artwork such as family snapshots where she circled herself and wrote that's me underneath. She is really organized has drawers for masks noses and the like. She is really into film. The images look really big and different than they did on the computer screen. The art is tragic nad kind of agressive but not exactly. She tries to keep itt subtle but feels it looks too much like her. She doesn't feel it anymore, the feeling of just getting lost in it is gone. The paintings just feel like such real people. The Cindy Book was one of her projects. She can't recall if she made it when she was seven or ten. She just was not sure. She forgot about her Cindy Book until college. She was trying to show her evolution. In the 50s it was about heavy make-up but in the 60s and 70s it was more about being all natural so she kind of missed the before and after transformation. She is very into clowns. She did works with clowns that looked like they were from another planet or dimension. All clowns were a possible subject. She at the time was experimenting with digital cameras. She did a piece on the rich upper east side society. It was a piece of a woman who looks doubty she had to retweak did not feel she felt old enough to be so doubty. The woman is supposed to think that she is the rock of the family. Acoording to Miss Sherman digital shooting is easier to keep with the flows. She took artistic license in selectively removing stuff so that the image looked like a head floating on a background/green screen. Other things Cindy did in school include a book of doll clothes for a film course. She wanted to bring a doll to life to tell a narrative. It was like a little figure movement and category study. She wanted her art to be mass produced but not have anything to do with art theory. The feeling she was going for was one that anyone would understand like looking at a movie. In her basement is where spent her time with her paints and projects. One of her titled works she rarely titled them some got names from others writings was fairy tales. It was a horizontal centerfold. Black Sheep was nother that was ambiguous. She was criticized for making too much fun of the HollyWood types. Some of herworks intentionally looked detached, moving and had a great sense of boredom. In one of her works on the bottom right hand corner there are big toes sticking out on huge feet from under the sheets. She purposely made big pictures that it was not a thing women artists were doing. Male artists were even the ones starting off, so she felt that it was a big egotistical thing. She purposely made people with big noses breasts that looked like half a grapefruit and such. She was not very versed in doing images of men. She was inspired by TV and Magazines because she felt that they were the one relevant thing above all else. When she would go to stores to buy props for a character she would have one particular thing in mind. In the 1980s and 1990s she gradually started taking herself out of the images. It got to the point that she was dolls and mannequins but people just assumed it was a living person, most likely herself. It was very big and up and in your face.