Summary of Cindy Sherman: Characters | Art21 "Extended Play"
The video discusses Cindy Sherman's approach to creating characters in her work, emphasizing that it is not about fantasizing but rather about exploring different personas. Sherman talks about how she used to embody characters, like Lucille Ball, in college and how it evolved into a more performance-like process. She mentions experimenting with other people as models but prefers to be in the characters herself to have more control and freedom to play around. Sherman also talks about the challenges of working with others as models compared to working alone. The video highlights Sherman's creative process and the personal connection she has with her characters.
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— 00:46 — « toes my work is not about kind of fantasizing about characters or situations some people I think have thought that the characters I do were yeah like as if as if I've always fantasized about being a f fatal or whatever you know if in my film »
— 01:05 — « Stills I don't think of it as as that literal to me when I'm doing the characters I really don't feel like it's some sort of something that grows out of my fantasy »
— 01:21 — « my own dreams in College when I would do it I would you know become a character and then sort of think well gee here I am is Lucille Ball and what do I do now so then it became sort of a thing and a little more like performance and I started to do it going to parties »
— 01:40 — « then it became sort of a thing and a little more like performance and I started to do it going to parties »
— 01:47 — « sometimes uh I remember once getting all in character and wanting to go to some opening and it's feeling like something was missing and then I put a pillow under the dress and went as a pregnant woman »
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Art and Creativity