Video: Chainsaw Massacre: Deadly Girls in Kelly Reemtsen's Paintings
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Paintings of the artist Kelly Reemtsen provoke the layman who is not used to the fact that a girl in a bright dress with a Barbie doll figure can stand up for herself. The artist skillfully combines the pin-up atmosphere with the attributes of horror films, thus criticizing social inequality.
The aesthetics of Rimtsen's work is based on a provocative combination of colors of postcards from the middle of the last century and objects borrowed from a slasher film. In the hands of the heroine of Rimtsen's paintings, they hold either an ax, or a huge garden shears, or even a chainsaw - the usual tools for killing heroes of such films as "Halloween" and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
The artist tries to scare the viewer - and thus draw attention to the position of women in society. Kelly Rimtsen is not satisfied with gender inequality and the image of a woman as a "beautiful doll" in a bright dress standing next to a stove. In her opinion, such social problems are much worse than a movie maniac with a chainsaw.
Like other contemporary artists (for example, Russian-American artist Irina Davis and American Rion Sabin), Kelly Rimtsen deals with the pin-up tradition. But the attractive heroines of her work are holding objects that would have looked more appropriate in the hands of a man in the 1950s. This is not only an allusion to horror films, but also a statement that women are capable of physical labor and are excellent at handling both an ax and a saw. Housewives helpless when there is no strong man nearby? No matter how it is.
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