Joan Semmel's Analysis

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Joan Semmel is one of several feminist artists during the 70s that sought to “Put Sex into Museums and Get Sexism and Puritanism Out”. However, her most recent works has shifted focus to the aging female body in a series of self portraits; “Centered,” depicts Semmel taking a photograph in a mirror. In this piece Semmel critiques the way in which older women viewed by society, especially Hollywood, through her use of the figure. Film roles for women in Hollywood after they turn forty shrinks significantly, as a majority of of female roles are made for women in their twenties and thirties. Also as a female characters aged they were less likely to have goals or purpose to their lives. Roles for male actors, however, are not dwindling with age,

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