Feeding the Swans
As history flows and Renaissance age comes, it is supposed to be a renewal in the ideas however women are still shadowed and the spotlight is centered on men. Chadwick continues to describe,“this period was a focus on woman’s sexuality as an object of exchange for money. Representations of women spanning, embroidering, and making lace often conveyed ambiguous and sexualized meanings”(Chadwick). Women continue to be seen as object in a cycle, In the painting on the right portrays the life of a women where she is born to guide through womanhood, being trapped in one place forces you to become used to the environment. In connection to this idea, woman often trapped in this idea of submission. |
Nameless and Friendless
The picture to the left portrays a woman being shamed through exchanges on looks. Chadwick explains the treatment of woman as it,“led to a new emphasis on the depiction of courage and physical prowess in representation” (Chadwick 106). This woman is stepping out selling her art as a form to survive, and as she is wearing black to represent invisibility. In terms of the men in the picture their judgmental stares forces a woman to downgrade herself to look away from intimidation. Her talent is being judged because of gender. |
Works Cited
The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art. Penguin Books, 2006.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. Langara College, 2016.
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