Woman artist

and, when the domestic finances were low, to lock him up in his studio and tell him he shouldn’t come out until he had painted half a dozen of his daubs.” (152) Again, James uses the theme of violence in his novel by depicting a wife who beats her artist

portraits of people, both famous and not. They are painted by a variety of artists of European decent and American decent between the mid 1700’s and the early 1900’s. The painting by Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun caught my eye and drew me in to look closely at its composition.       “The Grafin von Scholfeld with her Daughter” is oil on canvas art piece painted in 1793. It is a painting of a woman holding her daughter on her lap, the

Following its birth, hip-hop promoted important social and political causes. Hip-Hop artists use their lyrics and videos to convey messages to their audiences. It has become common today to dismiss the impacts women have made on the hip-hop culture. Nevertheless, Men have not only used hip-hop to promote important causes but also females. One of the more prevalent hip-hop artists since its beginning is Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah uses hip hop to promote issues important to females to audiences of

and Mary Nell Trautner’s article, “Equal Opportunity Objectification”, they talked about the sexualization of men and women. They mention how the media constructs masculinity and femininity. One is the gender stereotype of the body type a man and woman must have. Men have to be tall, muscular, and strong. Women have to be thin, weak, slender, and fragile. They used the magazine, Rolling Stone, which is popular in the music culture to compare the cover images of men and female and the change of sexualization

Three weeks ago I visited the Art Institute of Chicago. It was established in 1879 and has since expanded its collection to approximately three hundred thousand works. Attracting over one and a half million visitors annually, it is one of the largest art museums in the United States. The reason I chose this site is that I read that it displayed Georges Seurat’s A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, and I wanted to see it in person because it is so iconic. While at the Art Institute

companies ties to their, “interests in repackaging female sexuality so as to cultivate atmospheres that lead to its purchase,” (1). Popular music is currently distributed through more media outlets than any other form of pop culture. “The space a musical artist occupies in popular culture is multi-textual. Lyrics, interviews, music and videos together create a collage, often finely planned, out of which we are supposed to form impressions,” (1). The devaluing of a woman’s worth in mainstream pop music, not

Ratignolle, the embodiment of tradition, and Mademoiselle Reisz, the embodiment of eccentricity, Edna finds the answer to her own confliction. Adele Ratignolle is the perfect representation of the traditional woman of the 1890’s, a woman devoted to her children and husband, the type of woman that Edna is expected to be by

Does life imitate art or does art imitate life? In Botticelli’s time, there was a revival of Platonic ideals, suggesting that artists sought to convey the ways in which life imitated art. However, the Neoplatonic movement of art was but a time period, and ultimately artists exist in physical reality and draw from it to create their beauty. In comparing Odette with Zipporah as painted by Botticelli, Swann validates his love for Odette, a courtesean with a questionable background and transfers the

grapple with recording history in the Middle Ages, as it details the Story of William the Conqueror defeating Harold the Earl of Wessex at the Battle of Hastings. While the Tapestry depicts numerous men, who participated in this historical event, the artist only include six women in the Tapestry. This essay will examine how the female figures depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry relate to how women were viewed in society following the Conquest. I will formally

patriarchal England by publishing works in her feminist newspaper, petitioning Parliament, and by founding the first college in England that offered degree level education to women. Bodichon was an artist, feminist, and activist. She dedicated her life to fighting for equality, specifically in marriage. As a woman in Victorian England, she faced a ruling body of mostly married men who were opposed to change in their households, especially with their wives. Founding Girton College, which offered a higher