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Final Reflection: Team Bossom Buddies
Final Product! –
It has definitely been a really fun and interesting semester with all the creative and fun presentations and group projects! (It beats having to take tests, duh!)
For our final project, we settled on appropriating the goddess, Yakshi. It was overall a great idea and it was definitely fun exploring how a voluptuous body like what Yakshi had, meant Read more →
Art History Visual Response: Reflection
Project: Yakshi / FHM (OSS Posts HERE)
Group Members: Alfred Yeo, Ching Jo Inng, Evangeline Ng, Lu Jia Xian
Subject: Indian Buddhism
Museum Visited: Asian Civilizations Museum
For this project, we chose to appropriate the traditional goddess / beings of fertility in Buddhist/Hindu/Jain mythology, Yakshi. We chose to appropriate her as her exposed dressing and her volumptious figure that was associated with childbirth Read more →
Art History // Relfection & Final Thoguhts
*Reflection will be right at the bottom of the page!
Proposal (click here for original proposal post)
Chosen subject: Indian Buddhism
Group Mates: Chio Jo Inng, Alfred Yeo, Evangeline Ng, Lu Jia Xian
Museum Visited: Asian Civilisation Museum Chosen Object: Gateway Bracket with four shalabhanjikas
Identified by her bosom and buttocks, the person identified in the sculpture is Yakshi.
We decided to appropriate this particular sculpture Read more →
Histories of Art II: Final Project
Hi everyone! Thanks for a wonderful trip to history this semester! I definitely enjoyed myself more this semester. Shh, don’t tell Michael Walsh this. 😛
Below will be the following contents.
Prototype images Artist Statement Bibliography Presentation Slides ReflectionOur Prototype Images
Questions pointed out:
Why cover Naomi Neo’s face, and why was there two covers?To show the irony in how we perceive the body differently when Read more →
Histories of Art II: Bosom Buddies Reflection
Revised comments after presentation: “How do we know that FHM women choose to be on the magazine cover? Is it a general statement?”
Our group member, Jia xian proposed to use this ambiguity and match it with the ambiguity of the origin of religion. So we propose that the woman’s sexuality a man made construct, just like how religion Read more →
Histories of Art II: Visual Response Proposal
Chosen subject: Indian Buddhism
Group Mates: Chio Jo Inng, Alfred Yeo, Evangeline Ng, Lu Jia Xian
Museum Visited: Asian Civilisation Museum Chosen Object: Gateway Bracket with four shalabhanjikas
Some cheeky snapchats I took when we visited the ACM! 😛
“Wanna be on top”- America’s next top model reference, haha.
You can identify Yakshi by her huge bosom, curvy figure and excessive pieces of jewellery.
We decided Read more →
Visual Response Proposal
Chosen subject: Indian Buddhism
Group Mates: Chio Jo Inng, Alfred Yeo, Evangeline Ng, Lu Jia Xian
Museum Visited: Asian Civilisation Museum Chosen Object: Gateway Bracket with four shalabhanjikas
Identified by her bosom and buttocks, the person identified in the sculpture is Yakshi.
We decided to appropriate this particular sculpture that we saw at the Asian Civilisation Museum.
Yakshi was traditionally considered a goddess of Read more →