Male Gaze

Brief

To design a typographic poster to communicate one of the key terms used in the debate on polarisation, place relevant words in such a way that their placement or presentation is meaningful through the use of a primary metaphor.

I came across this one artwork by Kevin Bolk who recreated the Avengers poster with the male super hero’s showing their asses in the way female superheroes are drawn, while reading about it I came to know about the term male gaze and I started reading

about it, and realised that the male gaze is a concept that originally comes film studies.

What is the Male Gaze?

In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts and in literature from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. In the visual and aesthetic presentations of narrative cinema.

I realised that different women have different reactions or ways to tackle this

Some females choose to completely discard the male gaze
While some are trying to fit in the topic standards
While somewhat turning down these standards that are created by society.

Overall, everyone has different ways and perceptions about the same topic; this can be represented by using Perception Bias.

Research

A report by Plan International in 2018 shows the imbalance in the ratio of male and female nudity.

Actresses

Halle Maria

Elizabeth Berkley

Salma Hayek

Angelina Jolie

Sharon Stone

Dakota Mayi Johnson

Helen Mirren

Kate Winslet

Scarlett Ingrid Johansson

Monica Anna

Maria Bellucci

Marion Cotillard

Eva Gaelle Green

Nicole Kidman

Emilia Clarke

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Rosario Dawson

Alicia Vikander

Rooney Mara

Kim Victoria Cattrall

Carice van Houten

Lena Dunham

Jennifer Lawrence

Margot Elise Robbie

Anne Jacqueline Hathaway

Heather Joan Graham

Esmé Bianco

Gwendoline Christie

Lena Headey

Natalie Dormer

Jenny Agutter

Julie Christie

Julie Deipy

Kirsten Caroline Dunst

Eva Green

Sally Hawkins

Helen Hunt

Jessica Lange

Charlize Theron

Mandakini

Natalie Portman

Kristen Wig

Adèle Haenel

Léa Seydoux

Adèle Exarchopoulos

Kate Noelle Holmes

Laura Jeanne

Reese Witherspoon

Keira Christina Knightley

Molly Ringwald

Goldie Jeanne Hawn

Ann-Margret

Julie Andrews

Kathy Bates

Christina Ricci

Cerina Vincent

Betsy Rue

Billie Piper

Carey Mulligan

Alexandra Daddario

Elle Macpherson

Jamie Lee Curtis

Annette O’Toole

Madeline Smith

Jennifer Tilly

Lynn Lowry

Dana Gillespie

Lysette Anthony

Hazel Court

Amanda Peet

Emily Watson

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Stacy Martin

Olivia Wilde

Maria Rogers

Anne Bennent

Elizabeth Berridge

Katherine Waterston

Natascha McElhone

Natalie Madueño

Charlotte Rampling

Hilary Swank

Chloe Sevigny

Rose Leslie

Amy Dawson

Chiara Caselli

Christa Théret

Paloma Picasso

Corinne Cléry

Jennifer Connelly

Actors

Harvey Keitel

Mark Rylance

Gael Garcia Bernal

Diego Luna

Vincent Gallo

Oliver Reed

Alan Bate

Cillian Murphy

Peter Sarsgaard

James McAvoy

Ralph Fiennes

Viggo Mortensen

Ben Affleck

Jason Segel

Mark Wahlberg

Kevin Bacon

Richard Gere

Jude Law

Tom Hardy

Bruce Willis

Michael Fassbender

Ewan McGregor

Colin Farrell

Mark Ruffalo

Heath Ledger

Inequality is

Imbalance

Size is

Quantity

Poster