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1) presentation This piece of art is a full scale and coloured sculpture by Duane Hanson, an American Artist (1925-1996) . Duane Hanson called it " The supermarket Lady" . He scupted it in 1969 with polyester resin, fibreglass and oil polychromed paint with real clothes.
2) Who, Where , What... This sclupture represents an American lady, standing, pushing her shopping cart which is full of industrial products like chocolate cookies, vacuum-packed meat or coke. The woman is middle-aged. She does not seem to be very tall but she looks fat. She is wearing a pink tight top and a blue short tight skirt with blue slippers. She has a yellow necklace, a bracelet, a black shiny handbag and curlers on the head covered by a striped satin scarf. She is smoking a cigarette. 3)Duane Hanson chose to give a vulgar style to the woman. She's not attractive and badly dressed. She is fat and she looks tired. Therefore it is obvious that the artist wanted to criticize the American's new way of living .The idea of a woman going shopping with slippers on her feet, curlers on her head and a cigarette in her mouth is ridiculous, weird and even appalling. This idea is well depicted with the comparison between the woman and his cart: The woman is too fat like her caddie is overflowing. Her clothes are too tight for her and her caddie is too small for her. She’s buying too much and eating too much. If the caddie was bigger, she would probably buy even more food. Nevertheless, she does not seem to be satisfied! . She’s in a way a victim of the mass consumption. Hanson aims at showing that people does not take the time to go to the butcher, or to choose their vegetables in classical markets to cook healthy food. Everything has to do with fast and precipitation. As a consequence, people become fat, ill and depressed. His message is clear: We feel pity for that woman who becomes a product herself and we must question the society we live in.
4) Andy Warhol also shows the mass consumption with his series of paintings of coke bottles or Campbells soup cans. He highlighted the new every day life food: no more fresh fruit or vegetables but packed products from the food-processing industry. He focused his attention on the product itself and made a work of art out of it.
5) I find this sculpture funny. But one can't forget that it was created in a very particular context: the first supermarkets had already appeared and people were able to buy many things in the same place. Moreover, people did not have to cook anymore because they could buy unhealthy ready-made meals. Food-processing industry boomed and prevailed over hand-made cooking to be healthy. That's why I think this scuplpture is a good message to warn people about the importance to take the time and to prepare healthy meals because have a good nutrition is certainly the better to avoid many diseases.
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This piece of art is a full scale and coloured sculpture by Duane Hanson, an American Artist (1925-1996) . Duane Hanson called it " The supermarket Lady" .
He scupted it in 1969 with polyester resin, fibreglass and oil polychromed paint with real clothes.
2) Who, Where , What...
This sclupture represents an American lady, standing, pushing her shopping cart which is full of industrial products like chocolate cookies, vacuum-packed meat or coke.
The woman is middle-aged. She does not seem to be very tall but she looks fat. She is wearing a pink tight top and a blue short tight skirt with blue slippers. She has a yellow necklace, a bracelet, a black shiny handbag and curlers on the head covered by a striped satin scarf. She is smoking a cigarette.
3)Duane Hanson chose to give a vulgar style to the woman. She's not attractive and badly dressed. She is fat and she looks tired.
Therefore it is obvious that the artist wanted to criticize the American's new way of living .The idea of a woman going shopping with slippers on her feet, curlers on her head and a cigarette in her mouth is ridiculous, weird and even appalling.
This idea is well depicted with the comparison between the woman and his cart: The woman is too fat like her caddie is overflowing. Her clothes are too tight for her and her caddie is too small for her. She’s buying too much and eating too much. If the caddie was bigger, she would probably buy even more food.
Nevertheless, she does not seem to be satisfied! . She’s in a way a victim of the mass consumption. Hanson aims at showing that people does not take the time to go to the butcher, or to choose their vegetables in classical markets to cook healthy food. Everything has to do with fast and precipitation. As a consequence, people become fat, ill and depressed. His message is clear: We feel pity for that woman who becomes a product herself and we must question the society we live in.
4) Andy Warhol also shows the mass consumption with his series of paintings of coke bottles or Campbells soup cans. He highlighted the new every day life food: no more fresh fruit or vegetables but packed products from the food-processing industry. He focused his attention on the product itself and made a work of art out of it.
5) I find this sculpture funny. But one can't forget that it was created in a very particular context: the first supermarkets had already appeared and people were able to buy many things in the same place. Moreover, people did not have to cook anymore because they could buy unhealthy ready-made meals. Food-processing industry boomed and prevailed over hand-made cooking to be healthy. That's why I think this scuplpture is a good message to warn people about the importance to take the time and to prepare healthy meals because have a good nutrition is certainly the better to avoid many diseases.