https://madhushreek.com/blog/tags/art/ Recent content in art on madhushree's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://madhushreek.com/blog/posts/brasphemy/ Sun, 08 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://madhushreek.com/blog/posts/brasphemy/ After much excitement and anticipation, I got my first bra in the seventh standard. I had awaited this moment ever since the girls in my class first started wearing their bras. It was a big deal! Almost as big as getting your first period–a rite of passage into adulthood. In hindsight, the bra made me feel very desirable. I wanted to be seen as a woman. It is strange. Even as a child, bras were so sexualised and gender coded that it was only at a later stage (after a particularly painful exercising session) that I realised they were first and foremost meant to support breasts. https://madhushreek.com/blog/posts/kevin/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://madhushreek.com/blog/posts/kevin/ Does art not also contain the opposite of this ‘Dionysian’ losing of oneself? Does it not also contain the ‘Apollonian element of entertainment and satisfaction which consists precisely in the fact that the onlooker does not identify [themselves] with what is represented but gains distance from it, overcomes the direct power of reality through its deliberate representation, and finds, in art, that happy freedom of which the burdens of everyday life deprive [them]?