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Girl Before a Mirror is an amazing painting by Pablo Picasso, of his young mistress Marie Therese Walter. The painting is very involved as it tries to portray a woman facing her image as a pure innocent young lady to a woman that she has become or is becoming. The contrast that Pablo Picasso is trying to depict is not just relevant in the image in the mirror, but also through the color pallet he chose. On the young girls innocent side, the colors seem to be more pure and subtle with one half of her face a pale pink, her hair soft and blonde, and what looks like a white silhouette or halo around her head, and as her image gets closer to her reflection in the mirror, the colors start to become more intense not so simple or innocent. The transformation of the colors from her standing there, to her reflection in the mirror, shows a darker, older, more voluptuous woman.
The “Yellow Wallpaper’’, a story of a woman’s progressive neurosis that leads to hysteria and insanity, written in gothic style, explores the importance of self-expression, work and creativity in maintaining a healthy and balanced psychological outlook. When this is oppressed by gender and medical subordination, the consequences can be tragic. The yellow wallpaper embodies two aspects within the story. Psychological and Sociological. Both being a reason towards the woman’s slow neurotic ride to insanity.
When you can’t take your eyes off of a painting, it is surely reason enough to want to own it. One of the primary goals of cubism was to depart from the traditional understanding of art. “The Weeping Woman” is an oil painting that was painted by Pablo Picasso in 1937. Picasso was intrigued by the woman he painted on this canvas because she was his mistress. Dora Maar was Picasso's mistress from 1936 until 1944.
“Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous artworks; it is credited as the beginning of cubism. This oil on canvas painting is almost square at 243.9cm x 233.7cm, and depicts five nude women in still form. “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” is semi-abstract, for the women are unrealistic but still recognisable. The women in this paining are (as many women who pose for art are) prostitutes. This explains the artworks title, which translates to "The Young Women of Avignon”.
The mirror reflected the woman’s face as she applied her mask. Foundation, powder, eye shadow, liner, mascara, blush, and lipstick are all applied as she satisfies her need to appear beautiful. In Susan Sontag’s passage, Women’s Beauty: Put Down or Power Source?, she explains the definition of beauty and the plight of contemporary women with respect to beauty. Women are overly concerned with superficial appearances and they do not express who and what they really are. Although beauty was once considered a virtue and can be considered a form of power, it is really a form of oppression that leaves women objectified and constantly working to be attractive.
English Literature Mr. A November 1, 2010 Explication The red blossom bends And drips it’s dew to the ground Like a tear it falls The English Canon by Adrienne Su holds a serious tone expressing anger and frustration. The title of the poem doesn’t express symbolism for what the poem is going to be about. The first sentence starts off expressing of the narrators anger growing for the fact that women speakers were left out. The poem shows the pain the narrator went through and the struggles the young woman had. It further expresses the limits that were paced on the women further growth of the pain.
Eudora Welty gives us a very illustrated story entitled “A Worn Path.” It is a tale about a little old woman who journeys to the city to obtain some medicine for her sickly grandson. Still, one can’t help but notice the peculiar and even shady ways that she decides to go about reaching this goal. It is clear that Welty wants us to feel uncertain about this seemingly innocent and good-willed grandmother, because she isn’t all that she offers at face-value: She is a con-artist who has become extremely good at what she does through experience and extensive practice. Coincidentally, and unfortunately, this grandmother suffers from a mental illness. Old Phoenix Jackson seems to have no problem dealing with things that someone at a much younger age and in better shape would have issues with.
Her eyes are blacked out and her lips are voluptuous and red. The feminine soft hues of pinks and peaches led me to believe that there was a body in the center of this art piece. Why would Snyder place this woman in the middle just to cover her up? It made me feel as if the woman within the painting was being overlooked and then I questioned myself, “Did Snyder feel overlooked in her life?” If that was the case, in what aspects of her life did she feel overlooked? I then wondered if that was her, trapped in her own mind or trapped in a society that did not view her as an equal, which
Anna Gaskell: The Struggle For Identity “It’s about the suspension of disbelief, the possibility of the impossible, the absence of doubt, and the completeness of faith” –Anna Gaskell. Anna Gaskell is a profound artist that is part of the generation who is passionate about feminist conceptual photography. Each body of work appears to narrate, but hinders one’s ability to draw clear connections among the images. Gaskell’s work is distinct, in a way that most of her series’ are of adolescent girls that reference mind games, literature, and psychology. Her art pertains to surrealism, and relates to fantasy, horror, female sexuality, and the subconscious.