Wangetchi Mutu

The colours are quite subtle and there are not many colours in it. There is a lemma on the illustration. Mutu has added some parts of the human body, this balances out the Co, ours by adding different tones.

The glasses and the leg act as a focal point and look like they might be very important. Because it is not clear at first what is going on, by out do not notice the details.

Mutu uses a mixture of organic shapes and man made materials.  The sunglasses and fashionable shoes with the fact that the woman leg is not very thin which makes me think that she is trying to make comment t about on society,  that society is very discriminatory.

The eye looks bruised, this could mean that people are willing to do anything for fashion or that she has been in a bad relationship.
The collage black line looks a bug like a spine. The bigger eye was put out of centre so that it would look in right place, compared to the legs. Most of Mutu pieces are to do with politics,  women right, race, sexual identity and international fashion industry.

She uses magazine imagery with painted surfaces and found materials, Mutu’s elaborate collages mimic amputation, transplant operations and bionic prosthetics. These collages creates provocative juxtapositions of the female body.
She was born June 22 1972 in Nairobi Kenya.

It is very abstract and some parts are realistic like the background.
The message might be that it does not matter how fashionable you are as this illness could happen to you.
The work give me mixed emotions because I do not know what she is trying to get across. It is confusing.

I did a response of her work at the left side on the same page. In my response,  it is a man's two legs playing football. I am saying that women can play football too. The eyes are not balanced,  they are out of scale and they look directly at you. I have given  her a bear because I want to say something about diversity and about the way people judge women as weak.

The reason why I research this artist is because I like her use of ideas in her work. Looking up at her and the reason why she creates her piece helped me to come up with the message of a woman wearing a horror mask which have a power of making her possessive. This mask which I could be making is only meant for men to wear only.

http://rogallery.com/Mutu_Wangechi/mutu-biography.html

http://wangechimutu.com/
http://nasher.duke.edu/mutu/art.php