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| Tim Hawkinson |
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| Yinka Shonibare |
As a class we were asked to write a blog comparing the artists Tim Hawkinson and Yinka Shonibare who both use the “body” in their work. After going back and looking at their work I can tell there are big differences in their work but what connects them is their fascination with the human body. Hawkinson focuses more, I’d say, on how the body works both as a whole and as separate entities, for instance eyes, hands, fingers, mouth, ect. He also likes to take a single body part and exaggerate it, either by multiplying it or making it at a very large scale. Something that Hawkinson said in his Art 21 piece that I believe really expresses his work was, “it’s about our body’s experiences with the world”. His work is really great and makes us view the body in a different and maybe odd way.
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| Yinka Shonibare |
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"Blastula"
Tim Hawkinson |
Yinka Shonibare’s work is more about keeping the body in its normal state but instead dressing it up. He does a lot of work with fabric and has a very large color pallet. One thing that Shonibare mentioned about his work is that he is fascinated by the notion of “class”. He does an excellent job a portraying this notion by dressing up the body in exquisite costumes and putting them in a settings that we may see in society or have seen from history. One thing that I noticed is that he is great at making the body look like it is in motion. His work makes the viewer think more about standards that we hold certain people to in society and everyday life events. Both artists create works but speak very differently about the human body.
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