Repatriation Through Portraiture: Giving Narrative to Disability

Response Name: Institution: Course: Date: Title: Repatriation Through Portraiture: Giving Narrative to Disability Author: Allison Meier Summary This is a piece in which the author is keen to discuss the form of a human body with reference to the way that the disabled are viewed in the society (Meier, 2013). In a society that is obsessed with the perfect human body, people tend to distance themselves from any form of a human that is not with symmetry. Thesis The human body is one that is measured by the level of symmetry that is visible to human eye. This is also the standard that is used to establish elements such as beauty (Meier, 2013). However, the author is keen to draw the people closer to a standard that is appreciative of the forms that the bodies of the disabled come in. Portraiture is concept that involves word pictures designed in manner that allows the artist to show the appearance of a person and even character (Meier, 2013). This is rather intriguing and gives art a whole different meaning. The author is a rather observant person given that the fact that she has identified the gap in representation and appreciation of art. Which explains her emphasis on the forms of the disabled and targets people in the field of art or those that appreciate art generally...