Your task is to comment on the images of beauty you see in these images. Please click on the link to Mrs Moore's blog for the full exercise.
Jane Alexander - Oh Yes Girl......
Disney's new Sofia princess
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ReplyDeleteThese days society’s perception of beauty is very narrow. Beauty is considered to be the typical blonde, blue eyed, tan and skinny girl, no matter what kind of person she may be. Yet the quiet girl with dark curly hair, green eyes, fair skin and a little bit of extra meat on her body is seen as ugly because she doesn’t look a certain way, even though her personality may be amazing.
ReplyDeleteMy point being that if you’re not society’s idea of beautiful then you’re considered ugly.
Jane Alexander’s piece “Oh Yes Girl” portrays a kind of beauty that society would usually consider ugly. She looks so unhappy, as if she’s tired of trying to impress society and being judged by them. She looks very plain, which isn’t usually what you’d expect. You’d expect a girl with tons of make-up, but she looks very natural, almost as if she’s saying “this is the real me and i can’t change that.” The lace sewn into her skin also looks VERY painful, which kind of shows you the price of beauty and the extremes people would go to just to try and be someone else’s idea of beautiful.
As for Disney’s new Latino princess Sofia, there is absolutely nothing Latino about her. I mean i had no idea she was Latino until i researched her. Where’s the dark skin, dark hair and big brown eyes? She looks exactly like the rest of the typical Disney princesses. I’m sure the rest of the Latino culture would be very offended to see that Disney is taking away many of the characteristics they are know for and proud of. Every culture has beauty in it and what is Disney teaching young girls when they’re only being exposed to one idea of beauty and very few different cultures. You should be proud of your culture and who you are, and Disney makes it very difficult for growing girls to do that when they’re constantly making them want to look a certain way because that’s their perception of beauty.
Caro Schnittker :)
9B
Dear Caro, I am intrigued by how you have linked beauty to emotions, perhaps you could elaborate further on this in the next lesson as well as discussing the Disney princesses emotion and outfit?
DeleteI think beauty should be harmless, I don't think anyone should have to go through pain to be seen as beautiful as everyone is beautiful in the own way. In Jane alexander's oh yes girl image, the womens silk coller is digging into the skin of her neck, one can only imagine how painful that must be but how can we be sure that everyone still saw her as beautiful? Or maybe people saw her as beautiful because she was going through pain? Her skin is pale yellow and it looks as if her hair is falling out like she is spending so much time trying to be beautiful that she forgot about her own well being. Beauty should be painless.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comments Chelsey, however it is a bit brief for assessment purposes, so keep adding to your answer in the next lesson.
DeleteBeauty is such a powerful word. Can make a person feel important or can make a person feel worthless. The media has an idea that the stereotypical size O model or the tanned , blonde girl with a perfect body and face is considered as 'beautiful'. This idea of 'beauty' puts unnecessary pressure on girls ,that will possibly never look like this. Even though we get told that this 'beauty' is fake , this dosent stop girls from wishing they were like that.
ReplyDeleteA good example of how beauty can make a woman feel worthless is the painting of Jane Alexander the 'Oh Yes Girl'. This woman is in pain. On the painting we can see lace is being sewn onto her body on her chest. This just proves that it is painful to be beautiful. This women looks like she has tried to be beautiful her whole life but has given up. We can see this because her eyes are closed and she has a sad expression on her face. Her cheek bones are very defined so it looks like she has tried to be skinny like the 'perfect' girl. The woman has a pale skin tone which shows she hasn't been experiencing life. People wouldn't consider this as 'beautiful' but that is what society does. People look at the appearance and not at the personality, people don't look deeper.
A good example of how beauty can benefit a person is the Disney princess Sofia. This Disney princess is beautiful. That is according to the appearance. Her skin is even and has no blemishes on it. She looks like she is kind and friendly. She has pretty eyes and looks naturally beautiful. This is also a good example of how the media sees 'beauty' . She's 'perfect' as some people would say. Perfection isn't always beautiful, but imperfection is true beauty.
-hannah howard 9B
Dear Hannah, thank-you for your comments and insight into how society values women and beauty.
DeleteNowadays when we hear the word beauty we immediatley think of the skinny girls with perfect hair and skin. We have all forgotten the real definition of beauty and Jane Alexander's Oh Yes Girl piece helps us to analyse beauty in a different way. When i look at this piece I see a woman who has suffered for beauty. The lace that has been stitched into her skin is proof of that. Lace is usually associated with women and whenever i see it i think of something beautiful and maybe even original as you can do many things with fabrics these days.
ReplyDeleteTo be society's idea of beautiful is a painful process and women are usually the people who fall victim to this. Girls of many ages go through painful and heartbreaking things just to fit it in. This shows us that women are strong beings since they manage to get through all the hate and media's versions of beauty. Whatever happened to ''Be yourself"'?
When you look at Alexander's piece at first you might think that the woman is ugly until you really think and look at the picture from a different perspective she can even come about as beautiful. I managed to see this. You see the beauty in her bone structure, in the way her curls fall softly on her shoulders, the way she seems to be at angle so that you can see the gentleness of her neck. She is beautiful in her own way and once you aee and accept this you start to see the beauty in everyone else and everything else.
Beauty that can be easily spotted is the type like the new Disney Princess Sofia. She has the baby-cute girls,blue eyes, spot-free face and a slim figure. She is supposed to portray a Latina princess but you cant really see that because she has blue eyes and fair skin. Most Latina's have an olive tone and some are even a little bit darker. Their eye colour varies from an earthy colour, to different shades of green then hazel and dark chocolate brown. The Sofia princess looks like the stereotype princesses and these are the people that little girls look up to.
if you're really looking for beauty you find it deep inside yourself and no one can tell you otherwise. True beauty can be seen when you realise that your imperfections make you who you are and that what people say or do doesn't matter.
Real people aren't perfect and perfect people aren't real.
-Portia Mathaba 9A
Dear Portia, your writing style is conversational and easy to read and I can hear the tone in your words. Well done for seeing past the media mask and writing in such a delightful manner.
DeleteBeauty in today's society people are classified as beautiful and ugly . But in my opinion everyone is beautiful , you don't have to be an airbrush models we see in glossy magazines or the nerdy girl in class who wears the thick glasses .Everyone is BEAUTIFUL!!!.
ReplyDeleteOh Yes Girl by Jane Alexander
In this picture she's obviciously experiencing pain ,the way her head is tilted is showing shes had enough of life.The lace that is sewn into her neck shows her feminine side. Her skin is pale she doesn't go out often and doesn't wear makeup she accepts herself for who she is, her hair is very curly shows that she is a girly person and the way her eyes are closed shows that she's lost someone dearly to her heart . She's beautiful no matter what I wish more people in society can accept themselves for who they are.
Sofia
Is this supposed to be the new "latino" princess she doesn't look anything like a latino princess. She looks like the other princesses in the other words who looks perfect like that a fake mouth,eyes and everything she looks like those airbrushed models. In my opinion she's ugly what happen to making a doll for cancer patients and making cancer girls feel pretty about themselves. The only princess that is really her nationality is Jasmin because she looks the person that came from that city in Arabia. Disney seriously need to do something about this.
Hi Nevania, I like the way you have linked beauty to emotion and the need to love others and feel pain when losing them. It is a perceptive way of seeing life.
DeleteBeauty is the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, colour, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, society has painted a perfect picture in order to be "beautiful", skinny, tanned skin, with no imperfections such as birth marks, etc that are visual to other critics, coloured eyes, perfect hair and straight figures.
And now, we have begun to criticise ourselves on how "imperfect" (says society) we are, when actually we are thee most unique and beautiful person on the face of the Earth, because there are no two humans that are the same on the outside, unless you're a twin.
Oh Yes Girl - lace material is sewn into her skin near her collar bones, she has black and almost brittle hair, her eyes are closed and she looks a bit tired, tired of life, like she has given up and she only wants people to see her beauty.
She probably thinks that she is not pretty and is not the"it girl/lady" and has sewn lace material to make herself look pretty, to hide away the sorrows of her life.
Sudira Ranjith 9B
Hi Sudira, your discussion of beauty is intriguing and you have analysed Alexander's sculpture competently, however you need to expand your answer slightly and include your thoughts on the latino princess :-)
DeleteJane Alexander-“Oh Yes Girl”
ReplyDeleteThis image displays beauty in many hidden ways has one has to look and think about and cannot see it at first sight.
First of all, her complexion is very pale, almost as if her face is covered in a light powder what some of us might call base or foundation. This is a sort of make-up which ladies in our society use to cover up things on their faces that they don’t want others to see. This could mean that society doesn’t always accept our natural beauty, but rather expects us to cover everything up and display a fake image which is most times considered to be more beautiful.
Her hairline is very far back, displaying her forehead. When I see girls with fringes I always think back to the time when I had a fringe myself and my grandmother always used to tell me that my grandfather said, “A women’s forehead is the most beautiful part of her body.”
Her hair is sewn into her head and looks just like a how a dolls hair would look. Her hair also appears to look artificial. This could mean that she is wanting to or being forced by society to portray a “fake” image which like Barbie, is considered to be beautiful by some.
Her face has very sharp features (high cheek-bones, deep cheeks), like that of a person which would be considered by some as “skinny”. Society nowadays has a picture of what every woman should look like, in relation to her weight and figure. A lot of women suffer with diseases like Bulimia and Anorexia because they are conscious of what people will think of them. In other words if they aren’t skinny then society won’t see them as beautiful.
Her eyes are closed and her mouth is in a position that shows a sigh. This could mean that her facial expression is representing someone that is depressed and tires of trying to impress society.
Disney’s new Sofia princess
This princess doesn’t look anything different to any other American Disney princess.
Her eyes are blue which is unusual for a Spanish/Mexican person. They mostly have brown eyes.
Her hair is light brown and looks like what is said to be “white peoples’ hair”. Latinos usually have more course, dark hair.
Her complexion is very light compared to that of a Latino girl.
Her clothes are very much like what a normal princess would wear. If she’s a Latino princess I would expect her to be wearing clothes and accessories that represent her culture.
This image on a whole represents the way society sees us and how we should look. This is not how a Latino princess would normally look, but because we are constantly being judged, this princess has been changed and altered to suit what society would be happy with and what people would rather accept as beautiful.
Janae Lorenzo 9A
Thank-you for your comments Janae! Your work is interesting to read and I love your inclusion of personal memories and insightful discussion of the visual clues.
DeleteOH YES GIRL..
ReplyDeleteI personally think she lacks beauty!
1. Her body is lifeless and she lacks expression and energy.
2. The lack of hair care has lead to the loss of hair follicles towards her forehead. (might be a case of stress.)
3. The extreme she has taken to be beautiful, is largely out of proportion. The fact that she has gone to the extent of stitching clothes to her flesh. I personally think natural beauty shines a lot better.
4. Her skin is discoloured, showing illness and an unhappy life style.
5. Her eyes being closed show that she is slowly giving up on life and is tired and exhausted.
DISNEY’S NEW SOPHIA PRINCESS
1. I think that she is more beautiful than the other picture, but her beauty is more on the fake side the extreme amount of make-up. Natural would look more beautiful.
2. I don’t think her beauty depicts beauty in reality, she has followed the Disney stereotype of beauty.
3. Her eyes resemble beauty and innocents, with the shape and size of them and the colour resembles the peacefulness of the ocean.
4. Her skin is pale, representing beauty in some cultures but not in others, where she could be more tanned.
5. She is wearing a vast amount of gems and diamonds to try and make a statement of beauty, rather than being okay with herself being simple and natural.