TOXIC MASCULINITY AS THE THEME IN PAINTING ARTWORKS

• Main Author: Nagara Solichin, Semmanta
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/50143
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The increasing phenomenon of toxic masculinity is in the form of a discouraging behavior towards how men behave and express themselves which causes social inequality. Discrimination causes limitations in expressing their own identity about the masculine side they have. The process of working with an artistic approach as an expression encourages self-awareness to interpret selfexperience about the meaning of masculinity itself, this leads to a criticism of the poison of masculinity as a social phenomenon that continues to occur. The work entitled where is the masculinity belong shows an agender figure (genderless) that symbolizes gesture by indicating courage, strength, sensuality and victory. Expressions of the author's soul are poured out in the process of exploring form into paintings. This final project is the author's way as a man with a different sexual orientation to study the masculine and feminine sides through the phenomenon of the poison of masculinity