Idealizing Innocence: Lisa Yuskavage’s Process of Free Association Lisa Yuskavage’s artwork consists of highly sexualized, but seemingly innocent, subjects with exaggerated anatomy and suggestive positioning. Her work leads some critics to accuse Yuskavage as pandering to the male gaze and thus continuing the history of objectification of the female figure. However, Yuskavage admits that despite being aware that the viewer will perceive her subjects as “sex machines” she is also “trying to include how they feel about their own predicament.” This is best explored through a process of free association, a process of one word or image spontaneously suggesting another without any apparent connection, which is what Yuskavage uses throughout the evolution of creating her work Triptych, 2011. In an interview with Monica De La Torre she admits that she likes to reach into the unknown to figure out where the painting is going, explaining further that, “I put the canvases up on ...
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