Screen prints

For the humour brief my origonal idea was to take the piss out of these practical householder magazines from the 50s and 60s that I picked up in a car boot sale. Then i read an article with a list of instructions on how to be a good wife claiming to be from an 1950s homeconomics book, it had ridiculous instructions like dont bother your husband when he gets home he works hard for the family and always remember he is the master of the house. I was laughing at how backward it was, feeling quite smug about how far we've come but when I looked into it further it turned out to be a fake there was no record of that home economics book ever existing. 

Even if the article was a fake we know a similar rhethoric was drummed into young girls at this time but I began to think about fact that we compare now and then to make ourselves feel better about "how far we've come" I went from this to looking at female stereotypes and the fact that women can be our own worst enemies. It is a stereotype but in my opinion a fairly accurate one; women are most judgemental about other women. So with this idea in mind I appropriated two images one of Sophia Loren from the 50s looking terribly judgemental and a photo of a "modern bimbo". I flipped the negative comparison of then and now.

Finished screenprint