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Final Reflection: Team Bossom Buddies

Evangeline Ng

Monday, Apr 18, 2016 - 11:52:00 pm

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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 →

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Art History Visual Response: Reflection

Lu Jia Xian

Monday, Apr 18, 2016 - 12:07:26 am

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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 →

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Art History // Relfection & Final Thoguhts

Chio Jo Inng

Sunday, Apr 17, 2016 - 04:50:37 pm

@ J O

*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 →

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Histories of Art II: Final Project

Alfred Yeo

Sunday, Apr 17, 2016 - 02:34:52 am

@ alfredoodles

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 Reflection

Our 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 →

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Histories of Art II: Bosom Buddies Reflection

Evangeline Ng

Thursday, Apr 07, 2016 - 02:49:00 pm

@ Evangeline Ng

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 →

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Quick response: don't you think you need the tree? Even the sculpture made in 1969 has the tree behind. Otherwise, you cannot call her a Yakshi. She is just any generic Indian goddess. Also, are you specifically using the image in the ACM to do the face? Are you superimposing Naomi Neo onto her? More later.
Response to the thesis: I am having trouble trying to wrap my mind around the following parallelisms: "The status of a goddess as a divine being versus man-made construct, reflects modern-day ambiguity of sexual empowerment versus exploitation." Yes, they are both opposites, but I find it hard to see their relationship to each other. Regarding the image and the artist statement: Because you have "removed her from her traditional context," she could just about represent any South Asian goddess. Is this an intended point?

Histories of Art II: Visual Response Proposal

Alfred Yeo

Sunday, Apr 03, 2016 - 09:55:24 pm

@ alfredoodles

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 →

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Interesting visual response. Good find for the case study--Could it also be a birthing position? Have other contemporary artists responded to your issue? (no necessarily through the same object, but the same point you are trying to make) So, in other words, your main point is to convey the many powers of a female body? To displace the modern/contemporary emphasis on sexuality? What is FHM? Do all covers of the FHM look the same? Do a visual analysis/comparison of FHM covers from Jan-April 2016.

Visual Response Proposal

Chio Jo Inng

Sunday, Apr 03, 2016 - 09:24:25 pm

@ J O

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 →

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It would be easier for me to track your project and my comments if all of your posts were in one category.
Sorry! I just realised that your group does have a category called #bosombuddies"