Wangechi Mutu and Her Artwork

Artist has a very unique way of expressing emotions and thoughts. Female body is the main medium of delivering her emotions .Her use of different shapes and forms of the body parts is different and significant. She has a variety of element in her painting that resembles the actual message that she wants in light as for instance the use of the plants, animals, dark sun, stars, etc. She has so well connected those elements that when one sees her painting then one can clearly notice a female body and its significance. Emotions like happiness, love, hatred, hesitation, regret, power, etc are clearly being presented in her paintings and she has used the female body as a weapon. This symbolizes the empowerment of the women and women bear all this feelings and keep it to her and deal with it. She has given the touch of feminine in her paintings as the body (female) is wearing high heels, the shape of her body, her stylish looks, etc. She has truly related the beauty of the women and her empowerment in her paintings.

In her movie called,”The end of eating everything”, her presentation of a female body and birds in motion represents the conflict of the female body to consume the bird. Here in this particular movie, she actually symbolize the female body as a mother nature and her to and fro movement represents a kind of hesitation to destroy the bird but ultimately she ended up being violent and consuming few of them. As in her usual painting the painting in the movie is also a female body with her emotions. The facial expressions and the motions of the birds and female are so well coordinated that clearly reflects the main idea of the movie. The use of the black bird and the darker backgrounds and the color gives the movie bad evil notions. The expressions seem to be of hatred, anger and kind of revenge. The designs in the female body give a perfect definition for its representation as a mother nature, earth. Her ideas are shown clearly in the movie through the expression of the female and her intentions are into motions. The paintings of the female are so well done with those long hairs. The main theme of the painting in the movie is to show the darker side like fear, anger and mental conflict. One cannot really figure out the uglier side of the painting as it is so well coordinated.