Blog Post #4

Painting By Mickalene Thomas titled A little taste outside of love. Dimension 108 x 144in. This painted was displayed in the Brooklyn museum back in 2008 to 2009.This piece Clearly shows a mix of styles in one painting, from representational to abstract. It depicts a woman’s body in its truest form as well as the abstract background with a mix of monochromatic, patterns and a bit of texture. I found it pretty cool that Mickalene decided to add rhinestone to give it a feel of the “1970’s Disco glitz, which is a reminder of living in that era. This painting is stylized it shows a non realistic form of an African American woman. It’s looks more like a cartoon verse of a woman. John Bergen Ideas do apply to Mickalene. He states in other tradition African art etc. The theme of a work is sexual attraction, is likely to show active sexual love as between two people, the women as active as the men. Mickalene purposely painted “A sexualized female subject seemingly caught unaware as she reclines passively in her own beauty”. Mickalene painted these women to be comfortable in her own skin. In my opinion the artist was trying to mimic European paintings and add her own taste to it.Trying to represent African American women in a powerful form.