Enigmatic artist- Cindy Sherman

About Cindy Sherman, the most characteristic contemporary photographers，I want to say: I really appreciate her, but it is regrettable that I can not catch her.

In the presentation, the most intersting thing may be the photogragh. Hundreds of wide variety of photos interst me very much. In different series, I fount different figures and stories, from beauty to ugly, from elegance to disgust, form holy to shit. It is unusual experience for me to study a artlist I did not very fimilar with and then became fascinated with.

The most difficult for me might be to comprehend her works. Almost all of her works were self-shot, but we can not recognize her in the photographs immediately. She is not herself in the picture, but the role of the story she want to tell us. However, what exactly is the story about？I think each vistor has his own understanding. May be she plays a type –not an actual person, but a self fabricated fictional one. The vast majority of her protagonists seem bored and boring, self-absorbed and unhappy. Most of the women Sherman portrays seem untouchable. They are like the sullen, artificially glamorous women we see in many advertisements.
What I can do is only a description of the surface, the things under the suface are still waiting for me to think about.....

Serrano And His 'Piss Christ'

Serrano and his works have always been surrounded by such words: 'controversy, argue , pluralism and tolerance ' . ' It’s only when we are told that the title is Piss Christ, that we immediately recoil ', indeed, it is the common reflection of the most people who saw the photograph for the first time. Many critics considered that Serrano and his works were the result of liberalism excess, and his works' copy had been teared up by catholics. But all of these couldn't stop his pictures to sell good prices.

Piss Christ is an amazing artwork, at least , I think this work is 'art'. The reason why people don't like it is not the Image，however, it is very beautiful, but the urine. As Serrano said, urine is only a kind of body fluid, I can not imagine how a value system can be imposed on top of these fluids, and I can not make sure whether they are good or bad.

I think I should rethink about what is art. Just like this photograph, with first impression, I think it is a pulp work of a drank antisocial non-mainstream artist, and then I felt its artistic, finally, I began to think the deep meaning of the artist. It is the usual process when we visit art exhibition to face the artwork incomprehensible. we will try find some so -called artistic to show we are not laymen. But is it really as what we think about? Maybe it is only one of the quick products without connotation produced by continuous pressing the shutter. Whether a work is artistic, everyone has his own standard.

We are not artist, don't try to comprehen art.