Robert Mapplethorpe's Character Evaluation

Although Mapplethorpe's body photography is highly respected, these works inevitably tend to depict objects as matter. His cold sight makes this tendency clear and sensible, which may be the inevitable result of idealizing the human body, because when Mei Pu blackmails ordinary people to find the correct proportion of the human body, his communication with the object becomes secondary. At this time, people only exist as an object for modeling materials, not as an object to talk and communicate with.

Although his male body works (as well as still life photography such as flowers) show his homosexual tendency from the front, on the other hand, he treats the male body completely as a "thing" and depicts a classical abstract beauty within the traditional framework of harmony and balance. He also brought visual impact to the audience because of his almost explicit description of sexual violence such as sexual intercourse and erect male organs. What's more, Mapplethorpe died young because of AIDS. As Kentaro explained, this fact not only gave him the role of "instigator" * 1, but also deified him as a martyr. Mapp's blackmail on Pei was deified at an accelerated pace. Generally speaking, the more prominent his reputation is, the more vague the soul of his works-that is, the environment and motivation that he has to engage in this theme creation. The radical significance and strength of Maplesompe's gay theme and his historical role as a sex instigator can be considered as being diluted, neutralized and consumed in this way, and finally there is no resistance at all.