Rationale

The theme I am tackling in my COP work currently is the theme of offensiveness and what makes something (in particular art) offencive. Alongside of this I am also looking at the different ways we can categorise offenciveness and why these might apply to different people in different ways. So far I have looked at different pieces of art that have famously caused outrage with the public such as Myra by Marcus Harvey. I have found a few sources which have given me an idea of what different ways offense can be caused, be it religious, satirical, political, cultural etc, and I plan on looking at individual examples of this a lot closer in my visual journal. 

In my visual journal so far I have begun by looking at intersection and the different types and categories of human that inhabit the planet and how we all fit around each other in society.I've also been looking at diversity in terms of what we see in magazines e.g. different races, and religions. Most recently I have been looking at how the media tarnishes certain peoples reputations in the public eye by responding to stories about them in certain ways. For example how in the recent scandal with Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, how everyone was reluctant to believe he could be capable of beating her, but instead were very quick to believe that she'd made the hole thing up and was a gold-digger. Was this the opinion because people genuinely know and understand the way in which Johnny Depp works or because of the way the media portrayed the situation and the words they carefully selected to describe them both? In addition to this I have also been looking at the way in which we as society tend to see classical art sculptures that depict nude people as 'high art' and 'cultured' where we see nudity displayed in public by celebrities etc as vulgar and pornographic. 

Next I plan to look at more examples of this in the public eye, I might start with the medias treatment of women like Kim Kardashian and Beyonce on their nude photos and pregnancy's as I feel like that links quite closely to my work. I also need to work on finding some more source material linking to my subjects to give me some more visual stimuli to work off of.