What I Saw in the Water is different from most of Kahlo’s painting because this painting does have a dominant focus. This painting is one of the most creative and unsettling. Frida Kahlo friend Julien Levy explained this painting, as “It is an image of passing time about time and childhood games in the bathtub and the sadness of what had happened to her in the course of her life”. She painted her entire life into the bathtub. In this painting you see can some of the same symbols that Kahlo uses in all of her paintings. The bathtub is the first symbol, which is present in the painting. For Kahlo the bathtub setting is equivalent to the womb, which for the artist is both a source of happiness and suffering. Frida deeply moaned her inability to…
To analyze the gender stereotypes through the female’s traits and male’s traits in OLX Indonesia television commercials “Household” version, as the main theory, the writer uses Simone de Beauvoir’s critical thinking about the construction of gender by the society in feminine’s point of view and how women become what society wants to be because of the social construction about femininity and masculinity. She asserted that, “One is not born but rather becomes, a woman” (Beauvoir 1953, 273). In her book “The Second Sex”, Beauvoir stated about women that actually become women as what society expect them to be because they are taught to do so; women should be like this and not should be like that. Moreover, it told about how men become the ‘Subject’…
The underlying theme in Joan Didion’s essay “Marrying Absurd” is that customs and traditions of typical marriages do not apply in Las Vegas. Didion begins her essay describing the lack of requirements to obtain a marriage license in Las Vegas. She states that one can marry at almost any time or day, it just might cost a little more. Las Vegas has transformed the traditional wedding industry into a 24 hour seven day a week instant wedding industry. Didion quoted justice of the peace, Mr. James A. Brennan as stating, “I got it down to from five minutes to three minutes” and “I could’ve married them en masse, but they are people, not cattle.” She also went on to explain that Las Vegas had nineteen wedding chapels, all competing and offering a…
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a french painter who was known for making magnificent paintings that mostly persisted of women and children. But, a great artist doesn’t just pop up out of nowhere and automatically become who they are. Most artists have extremely rough beginnings and sometimes it’ll take more than half their lives to get their work out there.…
Piland, Sherry. 1994. Women artists: an historical, contemporary, and feminist bibliography. Metuchen, New Jersey: Scarecrow Press.…
American art historian Linda Nochlin’s essay Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists was published in 1988. This essay asks why artistic “greatness” and professional credit has been historically reserved solely for white Western males. While the titled seems facetious, it demonstrates Nochlins’ humor on a complicated issue grounded in social constructs, inequality and sexism. Nochlin notes that the question itself assumes that women are “incapable of greatness.” This assumption is what sparks Nochlin to explore the history of artistic institutions and education systems. From the Rennaisance up until the end of the nineteenth…
A three-hundred-year history of slavery in America led to a psychological oppression of black people in America, which still exists today. Toni Morrison decides not to delineate how white dominance has affected African-Americans culturally yet she challenges American standards of white beauty and how that beauty is socially constructed within our culture. In The Bluest Eye, Morrison uses society’s image of beauty to demonstrate how the value of black beauty is diminished by racial prejudices and dilemmas through the lives of Pecola Breedlove, Claudia and Freida MacTeer, whose young minds were affected by this internalized idea that the color of your skin determined how perfect or worthy you were seen, not to yourself and on the inside, but…
Historically speaking, men have been superior to women. It isn’t until recently that people have been concerned with equality. That being said, it isn’t surprising that the complex relationship between Janie and Jody isn’t any different. In Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, the author portrays the relationship between Janie and Jody as dominating.…
The hardships of slavery were not easy for anyone whether they were male or female. However, these experiences of hardships differed greatly among black males and females in the south. Male and female slaves had their own ways of dealing with the depression of slavery by passively or actively resisting against their masters. Also, they had different types of work assigned to them usually based on gender and value. Finally, they had different sexual experiences on the plantations. The following paragraphs will further explain these differences in the life experiences of the black male and female slave.…
In the argument,”Ain’t I a Woman?” by Sojourner Truth, the author herself talks about her true life events during the slavery era. During the early 1900s, America endured a time of slavery where blacks were owned by whites and discriminated against for years. Black men during the early 1900s; were able to speak to their owners, establishing rapport and in return received better treatment than black women. Women during those times, black or white, were not able to vote or hold highly respected positions in the community. Although discrimination was directed towards blacks and women, black women specifically endured far more discrimination from both Caucasian men, and black men.…
“You should never regret anything in life. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience” (Unknown, n.d.). This quote symbolizes how everything in life can be cherished and turned into an experience. The only way people learn is through experience, which makes life better and wonderful. In Elie Wiesel’s (2006) novel Night and the movie “Life is Beautiful” (2000), there are two completely different perspectives on life in the worst of times. Both the book and the movie show life during the Holocaust and how it has impacted father and son relationships. Each story shows how the fathers and sons are impacted through two different types of experiences spent in a concentration camp during the Holocaust. In the memoir Night and the…
Expressing yourself was one of the ways that many artists became popular. They painted what they wanted to paint, not what others told them to paint. If the artists made a big…
Black female artists, were vague they had set limits. There were a few black artists that made it through the late19th century, but it wasn’t until the 20th century when their numbers improved making their mark. African American ladies were a different story. Even after the Civil War black women weren’t able to attend college anywhere. But many female still had hope. They hoped that discrimination and being judge based on their gender or the color of their skin would one day stop doors from closing on them. They hoped for new opportunities. They knew that the challenges to this injustice would come one day. African American women also realized what they desired.…
Women are still woefully under-represented in the art world argues Jennifer Thatcher. :Last year an artist fired one of their studio assistants for being pregnant. She recalled that as soon as she made the announcement she was treated differently , and spoken to as though she had made a huge mistake. Despite working as hard as she could in an attempt to prove she could manage the work. She was eventually asked to leave and forgo her rights to statutory maternity pay.…
In the poem, Body of a Woman, by Pablo Neruda there is a dual imagery of who the subject of the poem is. Neruda can be talking about either the obvious image of an actual woman that is most likely his lover, but the other image that is not as evident is that he could be talking about his love for Mother Earth.…