I love the work of Roy Lichtenstein, so when approaching this assignment, I decided to revisit some of his work for inspiration. As I was looking over some of his paintings, I noticed a running theme in how he represented women. Most of the women in his paintings are in some kind of state of distress. They are often crying or extremely emotional, usually in reaction to a man. Here are some examples:
I realized while looking at these paintings that while I love Lichtenstein's work, his representation of women doesn't speak to how I feel in my everyday life as a woman, or how I would like to be represented. I think that this kind of representation of women plays on the stereotype of women as very irrational and helpless which has permeated pop culture.
My remix of this genre shows me in the pop art style as the kind of confident, self assured and happy woman that I would like to seen as. I tried to keep many of the pop art motifs (bold colors, cartoon style ink, speech bubble, etc.) but change the content to reflect my own personal life perspective. "Greet the day" is kind of a catch phrase of mine as well as my life philosophy, showing that I can be confident and happy everyday, regardless of my marital status, or the stresses I am facing in life.
I think that this would be a great exercise in a theatre classroom when students are dealing with older scripts for plays where the representation is different than it is now for cultures, genders religions, etc. You could have the students create their own "remix" of a scene from a play showing their own personal perspectives on the subjects.
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