Concepts for Independent Painting Project

Yeah, it is sort of cliche to still be talking about stereotypes and sexism, but there is such a WEALTH of subjects to be explored!

For my int. painting class, we're doing a 5x4ft painting. I'm going to propose creating images of pin-up girl faces [I like the classic ones done by Elvgren and some others] on Barbie doll bodies, focusing on their relationships to objectifying women [pin up girls] and creating a dismal role model that is physically unachievable, mentally stereotyped, and racially stereotyped [Barbie: the great white female]. 

The effect of my internship at the Multi-Cultural Center has been amazing, to put it lightly. I've been doing a lot of thinking about social justice and how I can incorporate meaningful messages in my paintings, as opposed to the usual meaningless pop shit. 

Sorry for the photo quality. Built-in webcams, you know. 

Here are four potential concepts.

"My role model is..." on the chalkboard in the background. All of the young, female students look up to pin up Barbie. They seek to look just like her when they grow older, even if physically impossible. Maybe they can pose seductively in magazines made for men, too. 

White female Barbie PREVAILS. I think I was going to put a pile of multi-racial heads in the background, but forgot. 

That is an Asian baby's face on a sexually posed Barbie body. She may not be mentally mature, but Barbie guarantees her that one day she will be sexually mature. 

That is supposed to be an Asian girl looking questioningly at a Barbie. 

Uh...

Well, I still haven't gotten my printer/scanner set up yet. BUT I'M ALMOST KIND OF THERE. 

So here is a silly song I wrote yesterday instead.

Other than that, I started my summer art class yesterday. It's pretty much a beginning drawing class. And oh my FFFFFFFF Everyone stereotypical is in that class. 


There's that young middle-high school Asian girl that is going to grow up to be that Asian woman in my accounting classes that asks every single irrelevant question in the world repeatedly. 
The mother with 2 children that she doesn't even try to keep quiet. 
The old gent that always has this serene happy look to him, like, if his cheeks were rosy he'd be drunk. 
The guy that looks like Sylvester Stallone, but he seems pretty friendly.
The good looking but prolly douchey Volcom hipster.
The middle-old aged woman that tries to suck up to the professor but fails miserably, but still tries.
The guy with a turban that speaks perfect english, but doesn't know how to communicate whatsoever.
And then there's me, the typical poser punk hipster Asian that judges everyone else in the class. 


UGHHHHHHH Must change these mindsets. I guess it's better to try to get to know people rather than not... even if you end up with people you really don't want to know and you can't un-know. Ughhh I am such a lazy pos. 


My goal for this upcoming [academic] year is to return my mindset back to that of the beginning of college sophomore year. When I really wanted to break out of my anti-social box and I got to know all the residents in my building.