"Darkened Woman" (A poem inspired by the above work)
Exposed, Exhibited
Twice
On the Turn, Transmute
Waiting as if fixed
By a creamy determinate,
once clasped by a shadow
Silent and outstretched.
Her voice buds
and blooms within
arms that gladly
curve inward, stagnate.
As words, formulate
and hover across the crimson
cherry "formless"
and for this alone
You mask the assured, threatening
Grip.
Eyeless
And oh how
You know her name
but, it is no Boudica
and as such you ravish
with prolonged, striking glances
her raw compromise.
for her muted limbs
endure a dimond bracelet
radiating retracted refusals
for which you attach
Cold Reason.
By- Danielle Dykeman
I should now like to analyze the above work of art through the lens of Formalism.
Formalism is a form of critique where by one looks at the text itself, not the artist. Thus I need to analyze, interpret, or evaluate the inherent features of the piece of Art. That is to say, the value of the art (as created by my judgement) is determined by it's form, I.E. the way it was made, purely visible aspects, and its medium.
Everything needed to understand the work is within the work itself.
With that said, here I go:
The work is of a understated Collage form. It was made by assembling different forms in order to create a unified whole. Visually it invokes a crushed or perhaps disjointed feminine motif that serves to beg the question: Why is the subject's form so compacted and why does the subject look away? Perhaps the reduction of or to an extreme point, the removal of, the feminine has created a suppressed female form who is incapable of being completely in view. Presently culture seems to reject the traditional, socially constructed, notion of the feminine and yet has not fully accepted or presented another alternative for those of the Female sex. Thus, are not woman, in many ways, like the above work; overlaping onto ourselves in an attempt to construct definition?
Although this is a visual work, it in many ways reminds me of Shklovsky's idea/construction of "Defamilarization." That is to say that this work distinguishes itself from regular or ordinary images used for communication insomuch that it is used to present the world in such a way as to allow us to see things differently. Innovation lies in finding new techniques of defamilarization and it is my belief that Delson's use of collage (a reconstruction of conventional images) produces a new language that invokes a world much different from that we confront on a daily basis.
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