Traditionally art has had the role of being society’s eye opener. Art must make strong statements and spark a cultural debate. Debates about new issues can lead to change just like new technology, and thus art may\u00a0lead to new trends and be an agent in the process of change in a society. Making art and engaging in a cultural debate empowers the female artist.<\/p>\n
Strong visual statements are often considered provocative; however the artists are not necessarily provocateurs, anarchists or rebels at heart. They are just exploring and turning what their generation and their parents say or do not say into art. The visualization of taboos, the unspoken\u00a0and the emotional sub current of their home country\/ generation\/ subculture often spark phobia among the viewers and the mass\u00a0medias.<\/p>\n
Nothing like a photo can change the way we look at things. The visual language of photography and art awakens our emotions and ethics. Strong images can also set our emotions off in ways, which we can’t control. We may feel high, falling in love with an image and love the experience, or feel taken a back by what we see and\u00a0even feel\u00a0violated by images, which we would rather not have seen at all. It can be an uplifting experience to see a good exhibition or a bad one for some people\u00a0to see explicit images of\u00a0for example sex, illicit love, gender experiments, loneliness, war and death.<\/p>\n
At an art show the (lesbian) artist invites her viewer to indulge in her visual world. Lesbian art and queer art\u00a0are important to the\u00a0lesbian subculture, as\u00a0they\u00a0reflect\u00a0the lesbian experience\u00a0and help us to\u00a0understand our selves.<\/p>\n
As\u00a0concept of “queer\u201d was adopted by the art world as \u201cqueer art” in the 1980’ies\u00a0a new way of looking at the role of the artist was defined:\u00a0She is sender of a message and\u00a0her viewers\u00a0are a receivers of a gendered message. The lesbian identified\/ queer female artist can thus so to say “flirt” with her female audience through the emotional messages of her works of art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Traditionally art has had the role of being society’s eye opener. Art must make strong statements and spark a cultural debate. Debates about new issues can lead to change just like new technology, and thus art may\u00a0lead to new trends and be an agent in the process of change in…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,23],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lesbian-art","category-queer-art","tag-birthe-havmoeller"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}