Tchaikovsky and Women in Art
“Tchaikovsky and Women in Art” Please respond to the following, using sources under the Explore heading as the basis of your response:
- Select two (2) paintings depicting females by both a male artist and female artist named within the Explore section. Compare and contrast these two (2) depictions of women, and comment on any general tendencies that you detect among artists of that era in this respect. Compare this situation in the late 1800s to the way females are depicted in our own modern times, using at least one (1) specific modern example.
Explore:
Artists’ Depictions of Women
- Chapters 31 and 32, depictions of women by male artists Manet, Degas, Dewing, Eakins and by female artists Cassatt, Morisot, Haudecort-Lescot, Sara M. Peale
- National Museum of Women in the Arts at http://www.nmwa.org/explore/collection-highlights/18th%E2%80%9319th-century
- National Gallery of Art (search by artist name) at http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/Collection/artists.html?pageNumber=1
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It was not easy for women to be artists in the 1800s; they still had to navigate through gender roles. The art education for a male was unequal to that of the women. It did not take long for schools to start giving opportunities to women who wanted to explore arts. Thomas Eakins made his career in Philadelphia by depicting upper-middle class residents while Cassatt Mary art…
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