F*CK U! In The Most Loving Way

Grace Fechner
Her
Acrylic, cut paper, graphite, India ink pen on paper
14.7 x 22 inches
2016
“Virgin, Whore, and Mother” are the categories women have been, and still are, placed into. This
perpetuates slut-shaming, as well as places exceptional emphasis on a woman’s sexuality in a way that
is limiting. In this piece, I reference the women subjects of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres’s
Neoclassical portraiture, oppressive fashion in the form of gut-squishing Victorian corsets, Philipp Otto
Runge’s Romantic paintings of ideal mornings, current attitudes, and emojis to break through these
categories.
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