Art is a form of expression. Art can be a window to the past, or a statement about the present. In any way, art is up to interpretation in any way imaginable. That even includes gender identity.
Art of the past has featured individuals often emphasizing their gender, often showing males on the battlefield and women in feminine poses highlighting their curves and purity.
Is gender identity clearly defined in art?
In what ways have gender identity and art impacted the other?
In your art, how is gender identity expressed?
I think that gender can be expressed in multiple ways through art.
As a (sort of) artist with a very complicated relationship with gender, I love to see artworks designed to make you question things like that. Men in typically 'women’s clothing. Women is typically men’s clothing. Someone who dresses and is set in such a way that you cannot tell whether they are male or female, left to assume that they are neither. There’s a lot I could get into on this lol, but what do you guys think? @Artists
I think art is however you want to see it. Perhaps a piece about representing social struggle could be seen to be about status to one, race to another, and gender to another. Not one piece of art has just one meaning. That’s what makes art so powerful.
I think it can be, or can’t. Really, art is perceived in many ways, and there is no right or wrong answer, unless maybe the artist says so? I do think that people can know what the artist intended to make when it comes to gender, just, maybe not clearly defined overall.
I actually don’t express gender identity, all my characters are usually gender-neutral, just have more of a balance of whether they express more on the feminine scale, or the masculine.