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    the world and how it perceives women, examining their societal roles, expectations, and disadvantages as a result of discrimination. Throughout the generations, philosophers, artists, and authors, such as but not limited to Mary Wollstonecraft, Frida Kahlo, and Margaret Atwood have chosen to observe and bring rise to the issues that create gender inequality, and their contributions continuously reshape feminism to what it has become in modern times: a way of living. To many, the feminist theory

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    September 2, 1936, where he was placed under house arrest. Towards the end of 1936, Trotsky was deported to Mexico, receiving a personal welcome from Mexican President Lazaro Cardenas. He lived in Mexico City with Diego Rivera, a painter, and his wife, Frida Kahlo, with whom he had an affair. Trotsky

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    In a world that we live in today we constantly are in competition with each other as we try and be the best that we can be. As humans we thrive on competing and that is a attribute that has gotten us this far as we refuse to accept defeat and the innovations that we continue to make are justified. Man has been known by some to be the dominate gender as men have been known to be the provider and the main support of most families and even to this day. Woman are in constant competition daily as they

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    artists you know of. Now take sixty seconds to write down all the female artists you know of. The chances are that your first list produced far more artists than your second. Perhaps you have some token women artists such as Georgia O’Keeffe and/or Frida Kahlo in your list. Why do these lists generate more male names than female? Are females incapable of the becoming great artists? Do they have a different kind of greatness? Or, as the feminist art historian Linda Nochlin suggests in her ground-breaking

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    Chapter 33 – Early 20th Century Multiple Choice Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. Throughout history, artists have regularly served political ends by using their art to make visual statements. Which of the following artists has created an overtly political statement with his/her work? |a. |Dorothea Lange | |b. |John

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    Remedios Varo an artist who was more than a painter. She made her own destiny when she escaped her mother's grasp. She married, and remarried a few times before finding the person she would spend her rest of her life with. She never divorced her first husband. She fought for her freedom all thru her life, freedom from parents rules of reformate and rules that kept women down in her time. Her artist style was her own mixture of surrealism and events going on in her mind or life . Her life was a roller

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    Works Cited Carlin. “The Evil's of WWI.” Carlins Blog's, 17 Feb. 2011. This is a secondary source that includes the original painting of “ The Temptations of Saint Anthony” by including the history of the original painting and the history of the recreated version of the temptations of St. Anthony. This tale inspired many artists to draw their worst nightmares. So Max Ernst recreated this painting by painting the evils of World War 1. The recreated version of the temptation of St. Anthony shows

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    see ad's for pain relief, or people talking about their pain. Google the word pain and you have almost 900 million searches. There are more than 2.9 millions scholarly articles written on pain. It is portrayed by artists such as Mexican painter Frida Kahlo who was impaled during a trolley accident as a teenager. We all talk about it, think about it and worry about it. So what is pain? As nurses we learn it is the fifth vital sign. Oxford Dictionary describes it as a) highly unpleasant physical

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    In ‘Once A Mission Girl Always a Mission Girl ’, DJ Agana uses icons of girls in the mural to conveys a story of two empowered women of color , that are loved by their community , become leaders in the mission . With the use of purple and pink, Dj Agana mural creates a friendly engagement for the target audience: girls. With the use of the female gender symbol and heart, Dj Agana conveys the love for the girls is deep. The eyes of the girls convey confidence in themselves and others because of

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    Renaissance Influence on the Historical and Social Significance of Self-Portraiture During the Renaissance, artists were acquiring status and the technical means to create a new genre of art called self-portraiture (Bond). Portraits are defined as having a likeness of a specific individual (Adams). However, self-portraits do not only have a likeness of the artist but also a sense of psychology that connects the viewer to the artist. This connection gives the self-portrait a depth of complexity

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