Pat_Brassington__A_Visual_Analysis

Pat Brassington: A Visual Analysis Art is not just a bunch photographs or pictures made on a canvas; art is much more connected to the viewer than just being aesthetically pleasing. It pries into your emotional being and draws out sentiments and feelings. Art in its essence draws out different things in each person whether it is the dark feelings or the truly sublime. Pat Brassington’s work seems to strike a chord that screams feminism. Brassington’s work is visibly guided by a Freudian view, which makes her art take a darker bleak path into the viewer’s emotions. Examining two of Brassington’s pieces 1+1=3 and Rising damp you can see a feminist statement with a dark Surrealist underlining. In Brassington’s piece Rising damp (1995) she uses multiple black and white pictures of stained and dirtied women’s underwear to create a stylish grid with around thirty individual pictures. The sheer size of the exhibit makes the viewer step back and attempt to take all of it in because it encompasses up almost an entire wall of the museum. This makes the viewer think that not only the pictures are a statement but also the way it is presented hollers notice me. pictures, piece, brassington’s, sense, rising, damp, white, viewer, picture, photographs, feminism, feeling, black, art, work, underwear, through, statement, pieces, men, mcdonald, makes, even, draws, combined, way, uneasy, two, throughout, shot, seems, presented, point, out, one