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A source of controversy related to Frida Kahlo
Hidden behind the portraits of Frida Kahlo is the remarkable story of the artist’s life. It is precisely this combination that attracts the spectator. Frida’s work is a testimony of her life; it is not often that one can understand an artist simply by looking within the frame of their paintings. Frida Kahlo is without any doubt Mexico’s gift to art history.
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The Feminine Perspective: Timeless Impressionism of Mary Cassatt
Mary Cassatt was an American Impressionist painter known for her tender portrayals of mothers and children. Born in 1844, she spent much of her career in France, where she became associated with the Impressionist movement.
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Sun, Sand, and Style: The Evolution of the Bikini
The bikini undoubtedly owed a large part of its success to the cinema – which actually featured it at first only because it was scandalous, and scandal filled seats. But it was quite right that there should have been some hesitation over it, for Hollywood had to be careful: initially it banned the bikini from the screen as “too corrupting and immoral.”
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Lingerie: More Than Just Underwear
Lingerie can help a woman feel good about her body, helping her thus to like and accept it, and in doing this, affirming a real sense of self-confidence.
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The Origin of the World – The sexual tension
There are the testimonies of poets, painters, and even of some famous psychiatrists. The Origin of the World is a work of art only suitable for lovers of intrigue.
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Underwear and Fashion: Lingerie, corsetry and hosiery
The authors correlate lingerie with emancipation, querying whether it asserts newfound freedoms or simply adjusts to conform to changing social values. The result is a rigorous scientific rationale spiced with a zest of humour. And the tinier lingerie gets, the more scholarly attention it deserves.
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Shelley’s Art Musings – Internationaler Frauentag – Wir feiern Künstlerinnen
Dennoch gibt es zwischen vielen Frauen auf der ganzen Welt immer noch enorme Unterschiede, was die Arbeit und die Bezahlung, die Anerkennung und die Ehrungen angeht. In den meisten zeitgenössischen Galerien sind weibliche Künstler gegenüber männlichen immer noch in der Minderheit.
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Shelley’s Art Musings – International Women’s Day – Celebrating Female Artists
There are still huge worlds apart for many women across the globe in areas of work and pay, acknowledgements and accolades. Female artists are still outweighed by male artists in most contemporary galleries. We are very used to seeing the female form as the centrepiece but usually painted from the male perspective.
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Shelley’s Art Scandal – Women and the art world – why are there so few?
Hopefully, it didn’t escape anyone’s attention that it was International Women’s Day on the 8th March. This day has been created to try and help eliminate discrimination against women across the world. It is really hard to think that in this day and age that this still exists, but horrendous acts still happen towards women all over the world, but discrimination doesn’t have to be large awful acts. I recently read a book by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie called “We should all be feminists”, where she describes a situation where she tips a guy is Lagos who parks their car. When returning to the car, Adichie hands the money to the…
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