How Does Grayson Perry Affect Society

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Abstract Looking through Grayson Perry’s life: an artist who introduces his work of art with a clever humor and reflects the past and present of the society. He faced some problems regarding from a case call transvestism: the fact of wearing clothes of the opposite sex, in other words it’s “cross-dressing”, mentioning that transvestites are not considered as transgender and are straight people. What made him transvestite? Does his childhood affected on his suffer? What do people have to say when they see him that way? His art consists a selection of tapestries and vases in which he conveys his ideas. Perry practices ceramics and different forms of art to create mysterious comments on society. He is one of the contemporary artists between the …show more content…

Grayson Perry grew up with the divorce of his parents and the entrance of his step-father to his life, whom used to abuse him. That fact affected Perry so much as a kid that he started hating masculinity and accused it as the major harm to our society (Perry & Jones, 2006). Later, he studied art in college where he found himself, came out as transvestite and desired to cross-dress (Brogan Driscoll, 2016). Trasnvestism, also known as Cross-dressing means the action of wearing the clothes of the opposite sex. People associated transvestism with homosexuality. However, homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual and asexual may employ with cross-dressing. “I always saw masculinity as an option.” says Perry, “I think that men need to look inside themselves (open the bonnet), become more aware of their feelings (read the manual) and start adapting (upgrade).” (Brogan Driscoll, 2016). Grayson Perry often features his female alter ego “Claire” when he is wearing feminine clothes. "I do it because I want to do it. I don't have an agenda with it… I like dressing up. I am a …show more content…

Perry composed large-scaled tapestries on contemporary topics; one of his tapestries is titled “The Walthamstow Tapestry (2009)”, where used known companies’ logos to emphasize on the fact of how the stages of the life that has been branded. Other tapestries had feminine features which shows his interest in femininity. Moreover, Grayson can be considered as an ironic artist since he used tapestry and pottery for his art works which express his protestation and mockery against traditions. Grayson is normalizing throughout the society using the philosophical principle “I am human, nothing human is alien to me”. Grayson used the Situationist International technique to reduce the role of the view in the society this technique is used as a way of criticism. In Grayson’s art named the Walthamstow Tapestry, he discovers the sensitive role in our lives, and our religious connection with consumerism. This piece of art shows a human life, interrupted with a series of marketable brands in which each one faces it. Without their logos and without their identity, the brand names face the topics of the portraits: regular people doing their own daily business, taking care of their children, swimming and last but not least

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